Union for the Republic الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية | |
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| President | Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar |
| Founder | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
| Founded | 5 May 2009[1] |
| Dissolved | 3 July 2022 |
| Succeeded by | Equity Party |
| Headquarters | Nouakchott |
| Ideology | Populism[citation needed] |
| Political position | Centre[2][3] to centre-right[4][better source needed] |
| National affiliation | Coalition of the Majority |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Website | |
| www.upr.mr | |
The Union for the Republic (Arabic: الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; French: Union pour la République, UPR) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was formed in 5 May 2009 by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.[6][7]
As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.[8] Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.[9] On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision,[10] while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.[12]
The party refounded itself as the Equity Party in 3 July 2022.[13]
