The National Congress for Democratic Initiative (french: Congrès national d'initiative démocratique, CNID; bam, Faso yiriwa ton) is a

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Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

, founded in 1990 and led by

Mountaga Tall Mountaga Tall (born December 10, 1956) is a Malian politician who is President of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID)Tiébilé Dramé Tiébilé Dramé (born June 9, 1955"Présidentielle 2007: les 8 candidats ...

left the CNID to start the

Party for National Renewal The Party for National Rebirth ( French ''Parti pour la renaissance nationale'', PARENA) is a Malian political party, created in 1995 by activists from the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID). The Party for National Rebirth is heade ...

(french: Parti pour la renaissance nationale, PARENA). The CNID, along with other opposition parties, boycotted the

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held on May 11, 1997. It also participated in a boycott of the July 1997 parliamentary election."Mali: "Radical opposition" to boycott 20th July election", Africa No 1 radio, July 1, 1997. In 2002, Mountaga Tall received 3.77% in the first round of the

. In the

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, held on 14 July 2002, the party won 13 out of 147 seats in the

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as a part of the

Hope 2002 Hope 2002 (''French:'' Espoir 2002) was a coalition of political parties in Mali that won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election of 2002. Its constituent parties were the Rally for Mali, led by Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, which won 46 se ...

coalition. The CNID backed incumbent President

Amadou Toumani Touré Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020) was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992), and later became the second democratically-elected Presiden ...

in the April 2007 presidential election."Mali: La formation politique CNID au bord de l'implosion"
, Panapress, January 4, 2008 . In the July 2007 parliamentary election, the CNID, part of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), won seven out of 147 seats."Mali: Résultats définitifs des Législatives — l'Adéma/PASJ perd dans trois localités"
'' Les Echos'', August 13, 2007 . In January 2008, the party was in the midst of a dispute between its two top leaders: Tall, its President, and

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, its Secretary-General (as well as Minister of Crafts and Tourism in the government). According to Bah, Tall had wanted to run as the party's 2007 presidential candidate, but the others in the party opposed this, believing that it was in the party's interests to back Touré. Tall and Bah were each suspended from the party's steering committee by supporters of their rival, and both of them claimed that the suspension decisions against them were taken by small groups surrounding their rival. Bah criticized Tall for allegedly considering the party to be his "private property".

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