The Union for the Republic National Movement (french: Union pour la République - Mouvement national, UNIR NM) is a

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 ...

of the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

(DRC) that was formed in 2001 by Frédéric Boyenga Bofala.

Mission

The party describes its mission as: :"''To remake the republic is the sacred mission of a generation - we must reconcile ourselves with our history, without a spirit of vengeance. We must reconcile ourselves with our dead''"

Chronology

* 2001: UNIR NM formed during the

Second Congo War The Second Congo War,, group=lower-alpha also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War and sometimes referred to as the African World War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year a ...

* 2003: UNIR MN boycotts the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement that forms the

Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo was tasked with moving from the state riven by the Second Congo War (1998–2003) to a government based upon a constitution agreed on by consensus. In 2001, President Laurent Kabila ...

* 2005: UNIR NM campaigns against the new

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...

* 2006: UNIR NM boycotts the

general elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

External links

Union for the Republic National Movement - UNIR NM
official site (in French) Political parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-party-stub