Sankarist Pan-African Convention
Sankarist Pan-African Convention | |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Merger of | Burkinabè Socialist Bloc Party of United Social Democracy Social Forces Front (Partially) |
| Ideology | Sankarism Socialism Pan-Africanism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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The Sankarist Pan-African Convention (French: Convention Panafricaine Sankariste) was a political party in Burkina Faso.[1] CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the Social Forces Front.
The party is led by Ernest Nongma Ouédraogo, former Minister of Security in the government of Thomas Sankara.[2] The party is Sankarist.
At the last legislative elections, 5 May 2002, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 3 out of 111 seats.
In March 2009 it merged with Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Mouvement and a part of the Social Forces Front to form the Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party.[3]
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