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Congress for Democracy and Progress Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès | |
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| Abbreviation | CDP |
| Leader | Eddie Komboïgo |
| Founder | Blaise Compaoré |
| Founded | 6 February 1996 (29 years, 291 days) |
| Merger of | Popular Front |
| Preceded by | ODP–MT |
| Headquarters | Ouagadougou |
| Ideology | Social democracy[1] Social liberalism[2] |
| Political position | Centre toCentre-left |
| National Assembly | 20 / 127 |
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TheCongress for Democracy and Progress (French:Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès,CDP) was theruling party inBurkina Faso from 1996 until the overthrow ofBlaise Compaoré in 2014.
The party was founded in February 1996 by merger of theOrganization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement and nine parties supportive of it (theNational Convention of Progressive Patriots–Social Democratic Party, theParty for Democracy and Rally, theMovement for Socialist Democracy, theUnion of Social Democrats, the Group of Revolutionary Democrats, theRally of Social-Democrat Independents, the Party for Panafricanism and Unity, the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina and the Party of Action for the Liberalism in Solidarity), as well as factions of theGroup of Patriotic Democrats and theBurkinabé Socialist Bloc.[3]
From 1992, when the office ofPrime Minister was reestablished, until Blaise Compaoré was ousted in 2014, all Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso were members of the CDP, along with most other national officials, and the party held the most seats in Parliament.
In theparliamentary election held on 5 May 2002, the party won 49.5% of the popular vote and 57 out of 111 seats.
In the13 November 2005 presidential election, the CDP candidate, President Compaoré, won 80.35% of the popular vote. At theMay 2007 parliamentary election, the party expanded its majority, winning 73 seats.
In 2012, Assimi Kouanda was elected as the CDP's National Executive Secretary.
The party still had representation in parliament after the overthrow of Compaoré in October 2014, as well as following theNovember 2015 general elections.
The CDP held its sixth ordinary congress inOuagadougou on 9–10 May 2015. Eddie Komboïgo, a businessman who had been a Deputy in the National Assembly prior to its 2014 dissolution, was elected as President of the CDP, while Compaoré was designated as Honorary President.[4] On 11 July 2015, Komboïgo was designated as the CDP's candidate for theOctober 2015 presidential election.[5][6] Komboïgo was subsequently barred from standing, and the CDP had no presidential candidate; however, it won 18 out of 127 seats in the concurrent parliamentary election.[7] Meanwhile, party leaders were accused of involvement in the failedSeptember 2015 coup, leading to the arrest of Komboïgo as well as a party vice-president, Léonce Koné.[8] Together with various other opposition parties, the CDP formed the Coalition for Democracy and National Reconciliation on 16 October 2016; seeking to promote political reconciliation, it was mostly composed of forces that had backed Compaoré. The coalition stood in opposition to PresidentRoch Marc Christian Kaboré and the rulingPeople's Movement for Progress (MPP), but it was distinct from the main opposition coalition, the Coalition of Democratic Forces for Real Change led byZéphirin Diabré.[9]
On 19 April 2017, the CDP criticized the forthcoming trial of Compaoré (in absentia) and members of his government in connection with efforts to suppress the October 2014 protests that led to the fall of the government. According to the CDP, the trial was a politically motivated "witch hunt" and "a clear violation of the rule of law".[10]
| Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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| 1998 | Blaise Compaoré | 1,996,151 | 87.5% | Elected Y |
| 2005 | 1,660,148 | 80.35% | ElectedY | |
| 2010 | 1,358,941 | 80.2% | ElectedY | |
| 2020 | Eddie Komboïgo | 442,742 | 15.48% | Lost N |
| Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
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| 1997 | Blaise Compaoré | 1,449,082 | 68.6% | 101 / 111 |  8 | 1st | Supermajority government |
| 2002 | 862,119 | 49.52% | 57 / 111 |  44 |  1st | Majority government | |
| 2007 | 1,373,078 | 58.85% | 73 / 111 | 16 | 1st | Supermajority government | |
| 2012 | 1,467,749 | 48.66% | 70 / 127 | 3 | 1st | Majority government | |
| 2015 | Eddie Komboïgo | 417,058 | 13.20% | 18 / 127 | 52 | 3rd | Opposition |
| 2020 | 371,633 | 13.27% | 20 / 127 | 2 | 2nd | Opposition |
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