The Party for Democracy and Socialism (french: Parti pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme) was a registered

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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 ...

(formerly Upper Volta). In 1999 the

African Independence Party African Independence Party (in French: ''Parti Africain de l'Indépendance'') was a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sectio ...

(PAI) split, and Soumane Touré formed a parallel PAI. Since the PAI led by Touré, which joined the government, obtained the legal recognition of the name PAI, the other PAI registered PDS as its electoral party in 2002. At the

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, 5 May 2002, PDS won 1.7% of the popular vote and 2 out of 111 seats. In the

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of 13 November 2005, its candidate Philippe Ouédraogo won 2.28% of the popular vote. At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party again won 2 seats. In 2012 the party merged into

Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba The Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba (french: Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Metba, links=no, abbreviated PDS/Metba) is a political party in Burkina Faso. PDS/Metba was founded on 31 March 2012 through the merger of Party for D ...

National conventions of PDS

*5 March 2005: 1st National Convention *2 December 2006: 2nd National Convention
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