Member State of the Arab League The Mauritanian Progressive Union (French: Union progressiste mauritanienne, UPM) was a political party in pre-independence Mauritania.
The UPM was established in February 1948,[1] in order to form a more conservative and regionally-based opposition to the Mauritanian Entente party.
[2] The first election contested by the party was the 1951 French National Assembly elections, in which its candidate Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye defeated the incumbent MP Horma Ould Babana.
The following year Moktar Ould Daddah became party leader.
[3] The Territorial Assembly elections that year saw the UPM won 22 of the 24 seats.