Democratic Union of the Malian People UDPN (in
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Union Démocratique du Peuple Malien) was a
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
MaliMali, officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked nation in Western Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west...
. It was founded by the CMLN military junta regime in order to provide it with political legitimacy. On September 22 1975
Moussa TraoréGeneral Moussa Traoré is a Malian soldier and politician. As a Lieutenant, he led the military ouster of President Modibo Keïta in 1968. Thereafter he served as Head of State from 1968-1979, and President of Mali from 1979 to 1991, when he was overthrown by popular protests and military coup...
announced that the party would be formed and served as its Secretary-General.
UDPM was organized along
democratic centralistDemocratic centralism is the name given to the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties, and the term is sometimes used as a synonym for any Leninist policy inside a political party...
lines, but was not a
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formation.
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Democratic Union of the Malian People UDPN (in
FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
:
Union Démocratique du Peuple Malien) was a
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
MaliMali, officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked nation in Western Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west...
. It was founded by the CMLN military junta regime in order to provide it with political legitimacy. On September 22 1975
Moussa TraoréGeneral Moussa Traoré is a Malian soldier and politician. As a Lieutenant, he led the military ouster of President Modibo Keïta in 1968. Thereafter he served as Head of State from 1968-1979, and President of Mali from 1979 to 1991, when he was overthrown by popular protests and military coup...
announced that the party would be formed and served as its Secretary-General.
UDPM was organized along
democratic centralistDemocratic centralism is the name given to the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties, and the term is sometimes used as a synonym for any Leninist policy inside a political party...
lines, but was not a
MarxistMarxism is the political philosophy and economic worldview based upon a materialist interpretation of history, a Marxist analysis of capitalism, a theory of social change, and an atheist view of human liberation derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; three primary aspects of...
formation. Traoré was the party general secretary. UDPM had a Central Executive Bureau with 19 members, a National Council with 137 members.
The main party organ was the daily newspaper
L'EssorL'Essor is the state-owned national daily newspaper published in Bamako, Mali. Its motto is "La Voix du Peuple" .-History:...
-La Voix du Peuple, which had a circulation of 40 000. It was the largest newspaper in the country as of the mid 1980s.