UFP wins eight seats in Mauritania's 2006 election

Running within the Coalition of the Forces of Democratic Change after the 2005 coup that ousted Maaouya Ould Taya, the UFP won eight seats in the November–December 2006 parliamentary election — its strongest showing — establishing Mohamed Ould Maouloud's party as a fixture of the country's left opposition.

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Union of Forces of Progress

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). UFP wins eight seats in Mauritania's 2006 election [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/bbf08b14-bd17-47cd-8e10-2cc761e2f9d0

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "UFP wins eight seats in Mauritania's 2006 election." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/bbf08b14-bd17-47cd-8e10-2cc761e2f9d0.

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@misc{tayyar-event-bbf08b14-bd17-47cd-8e10-2cc761e2f9d0,
  title     = {{UFP wins eight seats in Mauritania's 2006 election}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/bbf08b14-bd17-47cd-8e10-2cc761e2f9d0},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2006-11-19. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2006-11-19. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.