TheBenin Rebirth Party (French:Parti de la renaissance du Bénin) is aliberal political party inBenin. The party was founded on 24 March 1992 by then-First LadyRosine Vieyra Soglo, who became the first Beninese woman to establish a new political party.[1] The party was also headed by Vieyra Soglo after its foundation.[1] It is led byNicéphore Soglo, who wasPresident of Benin from 1991 to 1996 and later Mayor ofCotonou.
Rosine Vieyra Soglo established the party to provide political support for her husband, then-PresidentNicéphore Soglo, who lacked backing from Benin's political elite.[2] It initially worked, as the Benin Rebirth Party won 20 of the 83 seats in theNational Assembly in the1995 Beninese parliamentary election.[2] However, President Nicéphore Soglo, who was seeking re-election, was defeated by former PresidentMathieu Kérékou in the1996 Beninese presidential election.[2]
Soglo was the RB candidate in theMarch 2001 presidential election, taking second place with 27.1% of the popular vote in the first round, but he boycotted the second round. In theparliamentary election held on 30 March 2003, the party won 15 out of 83 seats.
In early August 2005, the RB chose Soglo's sonLehady Soglo as its candidate for theMarch 2006 presidential election.[3] The elder Soglo could not run because of the constitutional age limit of 70 years for candidates. In the election, Lehady Soglo obtained 7.92% of the vote and placed fourth.
In theMarch 2007 parliamentary election, the RB participated in theAlliance for a Dynamic Democracy,[4] which won a total of 20 seats.[5]
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