The People's Progressive Alliance (french: Alliance populaire progressiste, APP) is a political party in

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

. The President of the APP is

Messoud Ould Boulkheir Messaoud Ould Boulkheir ( ar, مسعود ولد بو الخير, born 1943, Fara El Kitane ar, فرع الكتان) was among the first Haratine to become a political leader in Mauritania. Messaoud also contributed towards the end of the 19 ...

,"Messoud Ould Boulkheir, candidat à la présidentielle mauritanienne de mars"
, African Press Agency (lemauritanien.com), January 20, 2007 . who was a candidate in the November 2003 presidential election, which was won by

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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya ( ar, معاوية ولد سيد أحمد الطايع, Ma‘āwiyah wuld Sīdi Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭāya‘ / Mu'awiya walad Sayyidi Ahmad Taya; born 28 November 1941) is a Mauritanian military officer who served as the P ...

. After Taya's ouster in August

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, Boulkheir stood as the APP candidate again in the March 2007 presidential election. In this election, held on March 11, he placed fourth, receiving 9.79% of the vote; he subsequently backed

Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi ( ar, سيدي محمد ولد الشيخ عبد الله‎; 193822 November 2020) was a Mauritanian politician who was President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008. He served in the government during the 1970s ...

for the second round, despite the participation of the APP in the

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along with the other second round candidate,

Ahmed Ould Daddah Ahmed Ould Daddah ( ar, أحمد ولد داده, born 7 August 1942Marwane ben Yahmed"Les vérités d’Ahmed Ould Daddah", '' Jeuneafrique.com'', February 18, 2007 .) is a Mauritanian economist and a politician. He is a half-brother of Moktar ...

. Abdallahi won the election, and in April 2007, Boulkheir was elected as President of the

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. The APP won 5 seats in the

National Assembly of Mauritania The National Assembly ( ar, الجمعية الوطنية; french: Assemblée Nationale) is the unicameral legislative house of the Parliament of Mauritania. The legislature currently has 157 members, elected for five-year terms in electoral di ...

in the 2006 parliamentary election, along with another two seats won jointly with the

Mauritanian Party for Union and Change The Mauritanian Party of Union and Change (''Parti mauritanien de l'union et du changement'', HATEM) is a political party in Mauritania. The party won in the 19 November and 3 December 2006 elections 2 out of 95 seats and in the 21 January and 4 ...

(HATEM).IPU page on 2006 parliamentary election
In the government of Prime Minister

Zeine Ould Zeidane Zeine Ould Zeidane ( ar, الزين ولد زيدان) (born 1966)
Agence Mauritanienne d'Information, April 21, 2007 .

, named in April 2007, three members of the APP were appointed as ministers. In the 21 January and 4 February 2007

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, the APP won 1 out of 56 seats. On September 2, 2007, Boulkheir said that the APP would not join a new party being formed to support Abdallahi. Following the August 2008 military coup d'état, the APP, along with the pro-Abdallahi

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(PNDD-ADIL), joined the four-party National Front for the Defence of Democracy, which opposed the coup."Hundreds attend anti-coup rally in Mauritania"
, AFP, August 8, 2008.

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