Peace and Development Party

This article is about the Somali Peace and Development Party. For the Egyptian Peace and Development Party, see Peace and Development Party (Egypt). For the Artsakh Peace and Development Party, see Peace and Development Party (Artsakh).

The Peace and Development Party (PDP, Somali: Xisbiga Nabadda Iyo Horumarka) is a political party in Somalia. It was established in April 2011 by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia from 2012 to 2017.^[1] PDP members unanimously elected him as the party's Chairman in April 2011, with a mandate to serve as leader for the next three years.^[2] However, Mahmoud resigned from the party on 22 December 2016, launching the similarly named Union for Peace and Development Party.^[3] The party's leadership also has ties with Al-Islah, Somalia's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.^[4]

Peace and Development Party Xisbiga Nabadda Iyo Horumarka
Founder	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Founded	2011
Dissolved	4 October 2018
Succeeded by	Union for Peace and Development Party
Headquarters	Mogadishu
Ideology	Islamism Islamic democracy Social conservatism Economic liberalism
Website
pdp.so
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The party claims conservative and Islamist views.^[3]

In October 2019, the PDP joined the Forum for National Parties, an alliance of Somali political parties which have agreed to work together to resolve Somalia's political and security issues.^{[citation needed]}