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14-761: It was founded in January 1991. In the February 1993 parliamentary elections the party won 22 of the 83 seats in the National Assembly , finishing second to the pro-military National Movement for the Development of Society (MNDS). In the subsequent presidential elections , CDS-Rahama leader Mahamane Ousmane was elected president, defeating the MNSD' Mamadou Tandja . In 1995 Ousmane called early parliamentary elections , which saw it gain two seats, but remain

28-519: A presidential candidate in the 1999 general elections , but won 17 seats in the National Assembly, which Ousmane became President of. In the 2004 general elections , Ousmane was the CDS presidential candidate for the fourth time, finishing third with 17.4% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections, the party received 17.4% of the popular vote and won 22 of the 113 seats. Following the election,

42-726: The CDS announced its final break with the MNSD government. The party withdrew from the government coalition and pulled its eight members from the Nigerien Council of Ministers . In a statement, the CDS demanded the President definitively submit to the Court's decision. The party also announced the creation of its own opposition coalition, the Movement for the Defence of Democracy (MDD) along with around five smaller parties including

56-707: The Forces of Change . Regions of Niger Niger is divided into seven regions (French: régions; singular – région) , each of which is named after its capital. Additionally, the national capital, Niamey , comprises a capital district . (2020 estimate) *capital district. Each of Niger's regions are subdivided into departments and communes . As of 2005, there were 36 départements , divided into 265 communes, 122 cantons and 81 groupements . The latter two categories cover all areas not covered by urban communes (population over 10000) or rural communes (total population 13 million), and are governed by

70-419: The MNSD resumed its coalition government with CDS-Rahama, whose 22 seats give the President and Prime Minister a 69-seat majority in the National Assembly, with Ousmane re-elected as President of the National Assembly. The CDS held its sixth congress on 1 September 2007. On 25 June 2009, after President of Niger Mamadou Tandja dismissed the National Assembly over his plans to hold a constitutional referendum,

84-707: The UDR and the PDP. The group was in direct competition with the larger opposition front, the Front for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) led by the PNDS, and staged the two anti-referendum marches in Niamey. The party boycotted the October 2009 parliamentary elections . Following a 2010 coup , it ran in the 2011 general elections ; Ousmane finished fourth in the presidential ballot with 8% of

98-402: The department, whereas communes have had elected councils and mayors since 1999. Additional semi-autonomous subdivisions include sultanates, provinces and tributaries ( tribus ). The Nigerien government estimates there are an additional 17000 villages administered by rural communes, while there are a number of quartiers ( boroughs or neighborhoods) administered by urban communes. Prior to

112-609: The devolution program of 1999–2006, the regions were styled as departments. The current departments used to be called arrondissements . ] The department of Tillabéri was created in 1992, when Niamey Region (then called "department") was split, with the areas immediately outside Niamey renamed as the capital district . Prior to independence, Niger was divided into sixteen cercles as second-level administrative divisions: Agadez, Birni N'Konni, Dogondoutchi, Dosso, Filingué, Gouré, Madaoua, Magaria, Maradi, N'Guigmi, Niamey, Tahoua, Téra, Tessaoua, Tillabéry, and Zinder. Their capitals had

126-520: The first multi-party elections in the country since independence in 1960, and followed constitutional changes approved in a referendum the previous year. Although the ruling National Movement for the Society of Development won the most seats (29 of the 83), several opposition parties formed the Alliance of the Forces of Change following the elections, between them controlling 50 seats. Voter turnout

140-827: The regions using first-past-the-post voting . Following the elections, the Democratic and Social Convention , the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress , the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism , the Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally , the Party for Socialism and Democracy in Niger and the Union for Democracy and Social Progress all joined the Alliance of

154-434: The same names as the cercle . After independence, the 31 December 1961 Law of territorial organization created 31 circonscriptions . The 16 colonial cercles continued to exist, and served as a level of division above these circonscriptions . Four cercles (Dogondoutchi, Filingué, N'Guigmi, and Téra) had only one circonscription . The Law of August 14, 1964 then reorganized the country into seven departments, adopting

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168-481: The second largest party behind the MNSD. In January 1996 he was ousted in a coup . In presidential elections held in July that year, Ousmane finished second to coup leader Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara . The party boycotted the parliamentary elections later that year. Since 1999, the CDS has been in an alliance with the MNSD, forming part of the parliamentary majority and participating in the government; it did not nominate

182-495: The vote, whilst the party won only three seats in the National Assembly. In the 2016 general elections the party nominated Abdou Labo as its presidential candidate; he finished seventh in a field of fifteen candidates with 2% of the vote. In the National Assembly elections, the party retained its three seats. Nigerien parliamentary election, 1993 Parliamentary elections were held in Niger on 14 February 1993. They were

196-459: Was just 32.7%. Members of the National Assembly were elected by two methods; 75 were elected from eight multi-member districts based on the seven regions and Niamey using party-list proportional representation , with seats allocated using the Hare quota and largest remainder method . A further eight members representing national minorities were elected in single-member constituencies based on

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