Unity and Progress Party

The Unity and Progress Party (French: Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès, PUP) is a political party in Guinea. It was the ruling party during the long rule of President Lansana Conté. In terms of ideology, the PUP advocates the unity of Guineans and economic liberalism.

Unity and Progress Party Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès
Abbreviation	PUP
Co-founder	Lansana Conté
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Conakry
Ideology	African nationalism Economic liberalism Authoritarianism Anti-socialism
Political position	Right-wing
Politics of Guinea Political parties Elections

In the parliamentary election held on 30 June 2002, the party won 61.57% of the popular vote and 85 out of 114 seats. Its candidate in the 21 December 2003 presidential election, Lansana Conté, won 95.25% of the vote; this election was, however, generally boycotted by the opposition.

Following Conté's death on December 22, 2008, the military immediately seized power in a coup d'état, ending the rule of the PUP. The party has continued to exist since the coup, although in a severely weakened form. It nominated Aboubacar Somparé, a prominent figure in the Conté regime and the man who would have been the constitutional successor to Conté had the military not intervened, as its candidate for the June 2010 presidential election, but he received only about 1% of the vote.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	Result
		First round		Second round
1993	Lansana Conté	1,077,017	51.7%	-	-	Elected Y
1998		1,455,007	56.1%	-	-	Elected Y
2003			95.6%	-	-	Elected Y
2010	Aboubacar Somparé		0.95%	-	-	Lost N

National Assembly elections

Election	Votes	%	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
	Constituency		Proportional
1995	990,184	53.5%			71 / 114	71	1st	Majority government
2002	1,947,318	61.5%			85 / 114	14	1st	Supermajority government
2013			13,503	0.43%	0 / 114	85	17th	Extra-parliamentary