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The Rally for Progress and Renewal (french: Rassemblement pour le Progrès et le Renouveau, RPR) is a
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Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
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History

The party was established in 1998, and contested the 1999 elections in an alliance with the National Union for Solidarity and Development. The two parties received 2.2% of the vote, winning a single seat, taken by the RPR's Valentin Aditi Houdé. In May 2014 the party joined the National Alliance for Development and Democracy.Birth of a new grouping of political parties in Benin: Final communiqué of the Constituent Congress of the AND
La Presse du Jour, 3 June 2014 The Alliance won four seats in the 2015 parliamentary elections.


References

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