The Rally for Mali (

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: ''Rassemblement pour le Mali'') is a

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 ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

created by

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (; 29 January 1945 – 16 January 2022), often known by his initials IBK, was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020, when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian co ...

(a former president of Mali) in June 2001. In 2013, Keita was elected President of Mali following several unsuccessful attempts, and the party took first place in parliamentary elections, winning 66 seats, although not enough for a majority. In October 2000, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the former prime minister of Mali, resigned from incumbent President

Alpha Oumar Konaré Alpha Oumar Konaré (born 2 February 1946) is a Malian politician, who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008. Scholarly career Alpha Oumar Ko ...

's party, the

Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice The Alliance for Democracy in Mali – African Party for Solidarity and Justice (french: Alliance pour la démocratie au Mali – Parti africain pour la solidarité et la justice, ADEMA-PASJ) is a political party in Mali. On October 25, 1990, oppo ...

(ADEMA-PASJ), over which he had presided since 1994. With activists and executives in tow, Keïta created the movement Alternative 2002 in February 2001 to back his bid for president. The Rally for Mali followed in June. In the first round of the presidential election, held in April 2002, Keïta won 21.04% of the vote, finishing third, after the official candidate of the ADEMA-PASJ,

Soumaïla Cissé Soumaïla Cissé (20 December 1949 – 25 December 2020) was a Malian politician who served in the government of Mali as Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2000. He thrice stood unsuccessfully as a presidential candidate, in 2002, 2013 and 2018; on ...

, and the winner, Mali's next 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 ...

. Along with the

National Congress for Democratic Initiative The National Congress for Democratic Initiative (french: Congrès national d'initiative démocratique, CNID; bam, Faso yiriwa ton) is a political party in Mali, founded in 1990 and led by Mountaga Tall. In the first presidential election followi ...

(''Congrès national d’initiative démocratique'') (CNID) and the

Patriotic Movement for Revival Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one's country. This attachment can be a combination of many different feelings, language relating to one's own homeland, including ethnic, cultural, political or histor ...

(''Mouvement patriotique pour le renouveau'') (MPR), Rally for Mali was 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 sea ...

coalition (''Espoir 2002'') for the 2002 legislative elections. After those elections, Rally for Mali became the second biggest political party in Mali, with 45 deputies. The Rally won roughly 13% of the vote in municipal elections of May 30, 2004. In January 2007, Keïta was again designated as the party's candidate for the April 2007 presidential election. In the election, he took second place behind Touré, receiving 19.15% of the vote. The RPM, part of the opposition

Front for Democracy and the Republic The Front for Democracy and the Republic (french: Front pour la démocratie et la république) is an opposition coalition in Mali that fought the presidential election on 29 April 2007 and the parliamentary election of 1 July and 22 July 2007. The ...

(FDR), won 11 out of 147 seats in the July 2007 parliamentary election."Mali: Résultats définitifs des Législatives - l'Adéma/PASJ perd dans trois localités"
''Les Echos'', August 13, 2007 . The Rally for Mali finally won presidential and parliamentary elections in 2013, when Mali transitioned back to democracy following a military coup. The symbol of the party is the weaver. The Rally for Mali is a full member of the

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.List of Socialist International member parties

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