The People's Progressive Alliance (, APP) is a small

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. The President of the APP is Messoud Ould Boulkheir,"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 Mu'awiya Ould Sid'Ahmed al-Taya (born 28 November 1941) is a Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005. He also served as the fifth Prime minister of Mauritania from 1981 to 19 ...

. After Taya's ouster in August 2005, 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 (‎; 193822 November 2020) was a Mauritania, Mauritanian politician who was List of heads of state of Mauritania, President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008. He served in the government during the 1970s, and ...

for the second round, despite the participation of the APP in the Coalition of the Forces for Democratic Change along with the other second round candidate,

Ahmed Ould Daddah Ahmed Ould Daddah (, 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 Ould Daddah, the first Pres ...

. 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 in the 2006 parliamentary election, along with another two seats won jointly with the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (HATEM).IPU page on 2006 parliamentary election
In the government of Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane, 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 only one 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 National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL), joined the four-party National Front for the Defense of Democracy, which opposed the coup. As of 2023, the APP party has no representation in the

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, it has zero seats.

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