The MMM advocates a fairer society, without discrimination on the basis of social class, race, community, caste, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
[2] In the general election of 2024, the MMM became the second largest party in the National Assembly of Mauritius with 19 Members of Parliament.
(A twenty-first constituency covers the island of Rodrigues; the MMM, like other mainland parties, typically does not contest elections there, although historically they had a Regionale organized there).
The Youth Wing, officially Jeunesse Militante, formed in 1973, is open to all Mauritian citizens aged between fifteen and thirty.
These two groups merged into Club des Étudiants, which met regularly at Tennyson College, Quatre Bornes.
In September 1969 during street protests against Princess Alexandra's visit, 12 of the student-activists (including Heeralall Bhugaloo, Paul Bérenger, and Sushil Khushiram) were arrested by local police.
After their release from prison, and with the assistance of PMSD MP Hurry Parsad Sham (also known as Panchoo), the student movement established its first Executive Committee at Heeralall Bhugaloo's Port Louis High School.
The committee's first elected members were Heeralall Bhugaloo, Dev Virahsawmy, Jooneed Jeeroobhurkhan, Tirat Ramkissoon, Sushil Khushiram, Ah Ken Wong, Robin Punchoo, and Paul Bérenger.
Other notable members of the new party were Zeel Peerun, Fureed Muttur, Chafeekh Jeeroburkhan, Krishen Mati, Kriti Goburdhun, Allen Sew Kwan Kan, Vela Vengaroo, and Amédée Darga.
[8] In 1976, in the first general election since independence, the MMM emerged as the largest single party, with 34 of the 70 National Assembly seats.
The first MMM mayors were Kader Bhayat (Port Louis), Jean Claude de l'Estrac (Beau Bassin/Rose Hill) and D. Jhuboolall (Vacoas/Phoenix).
On 13 January 1977 Heeralall Bhugaloo resigned from his position of Minister of Education under the Labour-PMSD government which he had held since the December 1976 elections.
The party sought to replace Jugnauth with Prem Nababsing, but he dissolved Parliament before it had a chance to vote on the No Confidence motion brought by his erstwhile colleagues.
The MMM formed an alliance with the MSM for the 1990 elections, campaigning for Mauritius to cut its ties with the British monarchy and become a republic.
In the 2000 elections, the MMM again formed an alliance with the MSM, under an agreement that each party would contest an equal number of parliamentary seats; if successful, they would divide the Cabinet posts equally, and that Jugnauth, the MSM leader, would serve as prime minister for three years, after which he would resign, assume the largely ceremonial Presidency, and hand the Prime Minister's office over to Bérenger.
[11] The formation of the Alliance du Changement was announced on 9 October 2024 in preparation for the November 2024 Mauritian general election by Richard Duval, Navin Ramgoolam and Paul Bérenger of the New Democrats (ND), Labour Party (PTr) and Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) respectively, ahead of the official registration of the coalition which occurred on 11 October 2024.
A fourth party, Rezistans ek Alternativ (REA) by Ashok Subron, later joined this coalition.
As of the 27th November 2024, thirdelected member of Constituency No.20 (Beau-Bassin/Petite-Riviere), was expelled from the MMM because of poor work ethics, following his disppointment of his non-nomination of as the Minister of Sports |url=https://defimedia.info/politique-paul-berenger-franco-quirin-nest-plus-dans-le-mmm |publisher=Defimedia |access-date=01 February 2025}}.