Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement was the ruling political party in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

. It was founded in April 1989 by the Union of Burkinabè Communists

Union of Burkinabè Communists

Union of Burkinabè Communists was a communist party in Burkina Faso. UCB was founded in August 1984 by the Group for the Unity of Marxists-Leninists , the Marxist-Leninist Group and one other group.In...

, the Revolutionary Military Organization (OMR) and factions from Communist Struggle Union - The Flame and Burkinabè Communist Group

Burkinabè Communist Group

Burkinabè Communist Group was a communist party in Burkina Faso. GCB surged as a split from the Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party in 1983, following the refusal of PCRV to support the revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara.In 1986 GCB signed a declaration, together with the Reconstructed...

 as a party based on Marxism

Marxism

Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...

, but strongly pragmatic, adopting the free market in its economic plan. It renounced Marxism-Leninism in March 1991.

In February 1996 the ODP-MT became a founding organization of the Congress for Democracy and Progress

Congress for Democracy and Progress

The Congress for Democracy and Progress is the ruling political party in Burkina Faso. Its President is Roch Marc Christian Kaboré....

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AIn the parliamentary election

Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992

Parliamentary elections were held in Burkina Faso on May 24, 1992, to elect all 107 members of the Assembly of People's Deputies. These were the first parliamentary elections held in the country after 1978, and the first to be held under the Constitution of 1991.In 1991 President Blaise Compaoré...

 held on May 24, 1992, it won 48.2 % of the popular vote and 70 out of 107 seats.

The ODP-MT was led by Arsène Bongnessan Yé, Nabaho Kanidoua and Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is the President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso and the President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress .-First school years:...

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It published Yeelen.