The Republican Party for Liberty (french: Parti Républicain pour la Liberté, PRL) was 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 ideological or p ...

in Upper Volta (now

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 PRL was founded in 1959 by

Nazi Boni Nazi Boni (December 31, 1909, in Bwan, Upper Senegal and Niger – May 16, 1969, in Kokologho, Upper Volta) was a politician from Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). In 1948 Boni was elected to the French National Assembly on behalf of the Voltaic ...

as a reaction to the attempts by the Voltaic Democratic Union to create a

one-party state A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties ...

. Boni built his new party largely out of the ashes of the defunct African Regroupment Party (PRA). PRL was short-lived and failed to make any major impact. Boni went into exile in

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from :wo:daqaar, daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar ...

, Senegal.

References

*Englebert, Pierre. ''La Revolution Burkinabè''. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986. Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso Political parties established in 1959 1959 establishments in Upper Volta {{BurkinaFaso-party-stub