Movement for Socialist Democracy (in
French
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: ''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste'') was a political party in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
. The MDS surged when the
Burkinabè Communist Group
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split in April 1989. In March 1991 it took the name MDS. It became a founding organization of the ruling
Congress for Democracy and Progress
The Congress for Democracy and Progress (french: Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, ''CDP'') was the ruling party in Burkina Faso from 1996 until the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in 2014.
History
The party was founded in February 199 ...
in February 1996.
The MDS was led by
Jean-Marc Palm
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.
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso
Political parties disestablished in 1996
Socialist parties in Burkina Faso
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