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- Confirmed Election held
Mauritania June 29, 2024 Ghazouani re-elected for second term
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was re-elected President of Mauritania on 2024-06-29 for a second five-year term.
- Confirmed Election held Mauritania May 13, 2023
Tewassoul remains the leading opposition party in 2023
In the 13 May 2023 election Tewassoul took 9 of the 176 seats (10.2%) — fewer than in 2018 but still the largest of the opposition (which held only 24 seats overall), keeping the Islamist movement as the principal opposition to El Insaf-led pro-government dominance.
- Confirmed Other Mauritania May 13, 2023
El Insaf wins a parliamentary majority in Mauritania's 2023 election
In the 13 May 2023 National Assembly election (first round; run-off 27 May), the ruling El Insaf (Equity) party, de facto led by President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, won an outright majority — reported at roughly 80 seats directly and about 107–116 of the 176 seats with affiliated/allied lists. It was the first legislative vote since Ghazouani took office in 2019 and consolidated the pro-presidential bloc's control of parliament.
- Confirmed Election held Mauritania September 1, 2018
Tewassoul becomes the main opposition in the 2018 election
In the 1 September 2018 legislative election (run-off 15 September), Tewassoul won 14 of 146 seats with 11.3% — second to the ruling UPR and the largest opposition party, confirming the Islamists as the only organized counterweight to the pro-presidential bloc.
- Confirmed Party formed Mauritania 2007
Tewassoul founded as Mauritania's legal Islamist party
The National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul), the Mauritanian Muslim Brotherhood's legal political vehicle, was founded in 2007 once party formation was permitted. It chose a participationist path, becoming the country's principal organized opposition force.
- Confirmed Election held Mauritania November 19, 2006
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.
- Confirmed Party formed Mauritania 2000
Union of the Forces of Progress takes shape as a Mauritanian left party
Rooted in the clandestine leftist Kadihine movement of the 1960s–70s, the Union of the Forces of Progress (UFP) emerged from a 1998 split that elected Mohamed Ould Maouloud president and adopted its current name in 2000. A cross-ethnic, republican, social-justice party, it has campaigned against slavery and the persecution of black Mauritanians.
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