Unified Lumumbist Party

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Unified Lumumbist Party Parti Lumumbiste Unifié
Abbreviation	PALU
Lumumbism Pan-Africanism African socialism African nationalism Left-wing nationalism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Alliance of the Presidential Majority
International affiliation	Socialist International (Consultative)
Colours	Red, White
National Assembly	17 / 500
Senate	2 / 108
Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Political parties Elections

Unified Lumumbist Party (French: Parti Lumumbiste Unifié or PALU) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The party's name comes from Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Congo after its independence in 1960 from the Belgian colonial empire.

It was led by

, the party won only 2 out of 108 seats.

Gizenga resigned as Prime Minister on 25 September 2008 for reasons related to age and health, and on 10 October 2008 Adolphe Muzito, another member of PALU who had served as Budget Minister under Gizenga, was appointed to succeed him. Muzito served as Prime Minister from 2008 until his resignation on 6 March 2012.^[1]

In the

, PALU lost 15 seats in the lower house, sinking to 19 seats and becoming the sixth largest party in parliament. Additionally, PALU did not choose to field a presidential candidate in the election.

In 12–13 December 2014, the party was admitted into the

See also

• Mouvement National Congolais

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