[1] CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the Social Forces Front.
The party is led by Ernest Nongma Ouédraogo, former Minister of Security in the government of Thomas Sankara.
At the last legislative elections, 5 May 2002, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 3 out of 111 seats.
In March 2009 it merged with Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Mouvement and a part of the Social Forces Front to form the Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party.
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