Union for the Republic (Mauritania)

The Union for the Republic (Arabic: الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; French: Union pour la République, UPR) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was formed on 5 May 2009 by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.^[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.^[6][7]

Union for the Republic الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية
President	Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar
Founder	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Founded	5 May 2009[1]
Dissolved	3 July 2022
Succeeded by	Equity Party
Headquarters	Nouakchott
Ideology	Populism[citation needed] Reformism[citation needed] Economic liberalism[citation needed]
Political position	Centre[2][3] to centre-right[4][better source needed]
National affiliation	Coalition of the Majority
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat International
Website
www.upr.mr
Politics of Mauritania Political parties Elections

As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.^[8] Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.^[9] On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision,^[10] while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.^[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.^[12]

The party refounded itself as the Equity Party on 3 July 2022.^[13]

Election results

Presidential

President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Election year	Candidate	1st round			2nd round			Result	Winning candidate
		Votes	%	Rank	Votes	%	Rank
2009	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	409,024	52.54	1st	—			Won	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
2014		577,995	81.89	1st	—			Won
2019	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani	483,007	52.00	1st	—			Won	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

National Assembly elections

Election	Party leader	PR seats		Women's seats		Constituency seats				Seats	+/–	Position
		Votes	%	Votes	%	First round		Second round
						Votes	%	Votes	%
2013	Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine	127,580	21.34%	138,651	24.74%	299,605	39.21%	124,656	55.11%	75 / 146	75	1st
2018		136,809	19.47%	135,831	19.60%					93 / 157	18	1st

Presidents of the Union for the Republic

• Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, 5 May 2009 – 2 August 2009
• Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine, 2 August 2009 – 29 December 2019
• Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar, 29 December 2019^[14] – 3 July 2022.^[15]