The Party of the Masses for Labour (French: Parti des Masses pour le Travail, PMT-Albarka) is a political party in Niger.
History edit
The PMT was established on 8 June 1992.[1] In the 1993 parliamentary elections it received 1.2% of the vote, failing to win a seat in the National Assembly. It also failed to win a seat in the 1995 elections, but won two seats in the 1996 elections, which were boycotted by the main opposition parties.[2]
The party received only 34 votes in the 1999 parliamentary elections, resulting in it losing both seats.[3] In the 2004 elections it contested three regions in alliance with the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress, but failed to win a seat.[4] It regained parliamentary representation when it won a single seat in the 2009 elections, which were boycotted by the main opposition.[2] However, it did not run in the 2011 elections and was declared ineligible to contest the 2016 elections by the Constitutional Court.[5]
References edit
- ^ Recherche sur l'existence d'un cadre legal pour l'exercice des activités des partis politiques dans la transparence: Le financement des partis politiques: Analyse critique de l'ordonnance n° 99-59 du 20 decembre 1999 portant charte des partis politiques Transparency International
- ^ a b Elections in Niger African Elections Database
- ^ Niger - National Lower House Elections (1999) Global Elections Database
- ^ Niger Election Passport
- ^ Arrête no 002/CC/ME Constitutional Court