Member State of the Arab League This article lists political parties in Mauritania.
Following the July 1978 coup led by Mustafa Ould Salek, the party was abolished and banned, and Mauritania's civilian leadership was replaced with military rule[2] until President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya established the Democratic and Social Republican Party (PRDS) in 1992.
Opposition political parties were allowed, but had no real chance of gaining power.
The National Assembly continued to meet even if its powers were restricted, and Aziz won the 2009 presidential election after forming the Union for the Republic (UPR),[4] which became the ruling party and won an absolute majority of seats in the 2013 parliamentary election, even if the "radical opposition", united in the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) was boycotting the election.
The UPR, Aziz and their allies in the soon-to-be-formed Coordination of Parties of the Majority endorsed Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, a general that also participated in the 2005 and 2008 coups and was a close figure to Aziz, in the 2019 presidential election, which Ghazouani won with 52% of the vote.