Unity and Progress Party

The Unity and Progress Party is a <a href="/facts/Political_party/IAKw7oEK">political party</a> in <a href="/facts/Guinea/MaBu4ysQ">Guinea</a>. It functioned as the ruling party during much of the long rule (1984-2008) of President <a href="/facts/Lansana_Cont%C3%A9/IRoXUf4o">Lansana Conté</a>. In terms of ideology, the PUP advocates the unity of Guineans and economic liberalism.
In the <a href="/facts/Guinean_parliamentary_election,_2002/hHuUCkbV">parliamentary election</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Guinean_presidential_election,_2003/5Dhm3a0h">presidential election</a>, Lansana Conté, won 95.25% of the vote; however, opposition groups generally boycotted this election.
Following Conté's death on December 22, 2008, members of the <a href="/facts/Republic_of_Guinea_Armed_Forces/c66wsAMt"> military</a> seized power in a <a href="/facts/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat/szyREKmF">coup d'état</a>, ending the rule of the PUP. The party has continued to exist since the coup, although in a severely weakened form. It nominated <a href="/facts/Aboubacar_Sompar%C3%A9/Pj3baxAn">Aboubacar Somparé</a> - 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 <a href="/facts/Guinean_presidential_election,_2010/Q4Rcp3cx">June 2010 presidential election</a>, but he received only about 1% of the vote.

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Unity and Progress Party