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People's Movement for Progress

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Founded
  
25 January 2014

National Assembly
  
55 / 127

Political position
  
Centre-left

Leader
  
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Ideology
  
Social democracy Progressivism Pro-democracy

International affiliation
  
Socialist International

The People's Movement for Progress (French: Mouvement du Peuple pour le Progrès, MPP) is a political party in Burkina Faso that was founded on 25 January 2014 by former Congress for Democracy and Progress member Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Kaboré ran as the party's presidential candidate in the November 2015 general election and was elected in the first round of voting; the MPP also won a plurality of seats in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso. It is a full member of Socialist International.

References

People's Movement for Progress Wikipedia