Sankarist Pan-African Convention

The Sankarist Pan-African Convention (French: Convention Panafricaine Sankariste) was a political party in Burkina Faso.^[1] CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the Social Forces Front.

Sankarist Pan-African Convention
Founded	2000
Merger of	Burkinabè Socialist Bloc Party of United Social Democracy Social Forces Front (Partially)
Ideology	Sankarism Socialism Pan-Africanism
Political position	Left-wing
Politics of Burkina Faso Political parties Elections

The party is led by Ernest Nongma Ouédraogo, former Minister of Security in the government of Thomas Sankara.^[2] The party is Sankarist.

At the last legislative elections, 5 May 2002, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 3 out of 111 seats.

In March 2009 it merged with Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Mouvement and a part of the Social Forces Front to form the Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party.^[3]