National Labour Party (Benin)
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The National Labour Party (French: Parti National du Travail, PNT)[1] was a political party in Benin.
History
[edit]In the 1991 parliamentary elections the party ran in an alliance with the People's Republican Union (URP). The alliance received 2% of the vote, winning a single seat.[2]
The 1995 parliamentary elections saw the PNT form an alliance with the Union for Labour and Democracy. However, the two parties failed to win a seat.[3] The PNT joined the Alliance of Patriots for the 1999 elections, but it also failed to win a seat.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Helga Fleischhacker (2010) Parteiensystem und Verfassung in Afrika: Strukturen - Funktionen - Typen, Springer-Verlag, p15
- ^ Elections in Benin African Elections Database
- ^ Fleischhacker, p174
- ^ Machioudi Dissou (2002) Le Bénin et l'Épreuve Démocratique: Leçons des élections de 1991 à 2001 Editions L'Harmattan, p81