The Dahomeyan Democratic Rally ( French : Rassemblement Démocratique Dahoméen , RDD) was a political party in French Dahomey led by Hubert Maga .
6-764: The party was established in August 1957 by a merger of the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement led by Maga and the Independents of the North party led by Paul Darboux . However, Darboux left the party shortly after its establishment and refounded his party as the Union of Independents of Dahomey . Like most other parties in Dahomey, it was a regional one and was heavily backed by the northern section of
12-619: A coup by Christophe Soglo in 1965. However, all parties were banned by Soglo in December 1965. Dahomeyan Democratic Movement The Dahomeyan Democratic Movement ( French : Mouvement Démocratique Dahoméen , MDD) was a political party in French Dahomey . The MDD was established in northern Dahomey by Hubert Maga in 1951 as the Ethnic Group of the North ( Groupement Ethnique du Nord , GEN). Maga had previously been
18-527: A member of the ruling Dahomeyan Progressive Union , but was encouraged to split from the party by the local French administrator Roger Péperty. Maga gained support from his Bariba people , and won one of the two Dahomey seats in the French National Assembly in the June 1951 elections . The party won 9 of the 32 second college seats in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections , emerging as
24-674: The Dahomeyan branch of the African Regroupment Party . However, internal disagreements led to the parties splitting back into their original forms in 1959. The RDD won 22 seats in the 1959 elections , and in 1960 agreed to merge with the PRD again, this time under the name Dahomeyan Unity Party . The party was briefly re-established as the Dahomeyan National Union ( Union Nationale Dahoméene ) following
30-692: The French colony (particularly among the Bariba ) without much support elsewhere. However, it suffered from internal rivalries between factions based in Parakou and Nikki and conflict between the Bariba and Dendi . In 1958 the party merged with the Yoruba -dominated Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD) led by Sourou-Migan Apithy to form the Dahomeyan Progressive Party , which was to be
36-726: The second-largest faction behind the Republican Party of Dahomey . In 1953 it became the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement . Maga was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1956 . The MDD was reduced to six seats in the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections , and in August 1957, it merged with the Independents of the North party led by Paul Darboux to form the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally . This Benin -related article
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