Unified Democratic Party

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Unified Democratic Party (French: Parti Démocratique Unifié), was, despite its name, not a political party but an electoral alliance of two parties, the Voltaic Democratic Party (PDV-RDA) and the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (PSEMA), ahead of the 1957 territorial assembly elections in Upper Volta. PDU won 33 out of 70 seats.

After the elections PDU formed a government together with the

Ouezzine Coulibaly and formed an opposition bloc, Voltaic Solidarity
. Thus PDU was no more.

Sources

  • Englebert, Pierre. La Revolution Burkinabè. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.