Impulse for Progress and Development
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Impulse for Progress and Development (French: Impulsion pour le Progrès et le Développement, IPD), also referred to as Impulse to Progress and Democracy, was a political alliance and party in Benin.
History
[edit | edit source]The Impulse for Progress and Development alliance was formed for the 1995 parliamentary elections as part of the opposition to President Nicéphore Soglo.[1] It consisted of the National Party for Democracy and Development (PNDD), Alliance for Civic Renewal (ARC) and the Party for Democracy and Progress (PDP) and headed by Moïse Mensah.[2] The alliance received 3% of the vote and won three seats,[3][4] taken by Valentin Houde, Théophile Nata and Albert Sansouamou.
The PNDD left to join the Star Alliance for the 1999 parliamentary elections,[2] but although the IPD's vote share fell to 2%, it increased its parliamentary representation, winning four seats,[5] taken by Nata, Félix Jean Agbayahun, Imorou Sale and Emmanuel Tiando. Although the Benin Rebirth Party won around a third of the seats, the IPD was one of eight groups in parliament to form a coalition government.[6] After joining the government, Nata was appointed Minister of Rural Development in 1999 and then Minister of Agriculture in 2001.
By the 2003 parliamentary elections the IPD had become a unitary party.[7] It contested the elections as part of the 'Presidential Movement' bloc, winning two seats,[8] taken by Nata and Kotoi Imorou Sarre.[9]
Efforts were made to revive the party in 2015 by national secretary Mike Azilinon.[10]
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