Democratic_Party_of_Benin

Democratic Party of Benin

Democratic Party of Benin

Political party in Benin

The Democratic Party of Benin (French: Parti Démocratique du Bénin, PDB) was a political party in Benin.

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History

The party was established by Soulé Dankoro in 1996.[1] In the 1999 parliamentary elections the party received 1.9% of the vote, winning one seat,[2] with Dankoro becoming its sole MP.[3] Dankoro was the party's candidate for the 2001 presidential elections, but he received less than 1% of the vote, finishing seventh in a field of seventeen candidates. The party joined the New Alliance for the 2003 parliamentary elections,[4] with the alliance winning two seats.

Dankoro ran for the presidency on the party's ticket for a second time in 2006, but again received less than 1% of the vote, finishing fifteenth out of twenty-six candidates.

References

  1. [1]
    Africa South of the Sahara 2003, Psychology Press, p75
  2. [2]
    Machioudi Dissou (2002) Le Bénin et l'Épreuve Démocratique: Leçons des élections de 1991 à 2001 Editions L'Harmattan, p80
  3. [3]
    Proclamation of the definitive results of the legislative elections of 30 March 1999 Archived 21 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine Constitutional Court
  4. [4]
    Bogdan Szajkowski (2005) Political Parties of the World, John Harper Publishing, p66


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