Alliance de L'Avenir
Alliance de l'avenir | |
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International affiliation | Socialist International |
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The L'Alliance de L'avenir (
The party alliance won the general elections held on 5 May 2010 and is the majority alliance and forms the government of Mauritius, where the largest party is the
The Mauritian Social Democrat Party has 4 MPs and the leader
History
The First alliance between the Labour Party, MSM and PMSD was made in 1983 by then Prime Minister
After having conflicts with
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, leader of the Labour Party had reached his 83rd birthday and could not stand as prime minister candidate for Labour. Instead they contracted an alliance with the MSM of Jugnauth obtaining 35 ticket allocation and the Labour 15 tickets. They made an electoral pact with the PMSD and agreed to not put any Labour-MSM candidate for the resting of 60 seats . PMSD eventually got the 12 resting tickets.
The results was of MSM having 29 Mps, the Labour having 9 Mps and the PSMD left with 3 Mps . They formed the government with 45 Mps in all with