Movement for Development and Solidarity

The Movement for Development and Solidarity (French: Mouvement pour le Développement et la Solidarité) is a political party in Benin. In the legislative elections held on 30 March 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections, and won one out of 83 seats.^[1] It helped form the coalition Union Makes the Nation, the main opposition to President Yayi Boni's government following the 2011 elections.