National Liberation Movement (Upper Volta)
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The National Liberation Movement (French: Mouvement de Libération Nationale, MLN) was a political party in Burkina Faso.
History
The party was originally established by Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Dakar in Senegal in August 1958. Ki-Zerbo founded the party in order to campaign for a "no" vote in the constitutional referendum in September. After 99% of voters voted for the new constitution, Ki Zerbo moved to Guinea, the only country to oppose the constitution and subsequently become independent.[1]
In 1970 Ki-Zerbo re-established the party to run in the parliamentary elections that year. It received 11% of the vote and won 6 of the 57 seats in the National Assembly.[2]
The party was banned in 1974.[1]
References
- ^ a b Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali, Boureima Diamitani (2013) Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso, Rowman & Littlefield, p139
- ^ Elections in Burkina Faso African Elections Database
