Union for the Republic الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية | |
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| President | Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar |
| Founder | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
| Founded | 5 May 2009[1] |
| Dissolved | 3 July 2022 |
| Succeeded by | Equity Party |
| Headquarters | Nouakchott |
| Ideology | Populism[citation needed] Reformism[citation needed] Economic liberalism[citation needed] |
| Political position | Centre[2][3] tocentre-right[4][better source needed] |
| National affiliation | Coalition of the Majority |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Website | |
| www.upr.mr | |
TheUnion for the Republic (Arabic:الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية;French:Union pour la République,UPR) was apolitical party inMauritania. The party was formed on 5 May 2009 byMohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President ofMauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as thePresident of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.[6][7]
As a result of the2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.[8] Four major political parties merged into theUnion for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, theUnionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.[9] On the 21st,Choura for Development adopted the same decision,[10] while centristEl Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was theNational Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.[12]
The party refounded itself as theEquity Party on 3 July 2022.[13]
| Election year | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | Result | Winning candidate | ||||
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| Votes | % | Rank | Votes | % | Rank | ||||
| 2009 | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | 409,024 | 52.54 | 1st | — | Won | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | ||
| 2014 | 577,995 | 81.89 | 1st | — | Won | ||||
| 2019 | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | 483,007 | 52.00 | 1st | — | Won | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | ||
| Election | Party leader | PR seats | Women's seats | Constituency seats | Seats | +/– | Position | |||||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | First round | Second round | |||||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||||
| 2013 | Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine | 127,580 | 21.34% | 138,651 | 24.74% | 299,605 | 39.21% | 124,656 | 55.11% | 75 / 146 |  75 | 1st |
| 2018 | 136,809 | 19.47% | 135,831 | 19.60% | 93 / 157 | 18 |  1st | |||||
| Represented in theNational Assembly (176 seats) |
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| Represented inregional councils | |||||||
| Parties dissolved after the2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election | |||||||
