Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party

The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (, UNIR / PS) was a political party in Burkina Faso.

History

The party was founded on 1 November 2000. Its president is lawyer Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara,Page about the party on thomassankara.net. who bears no family relationship to the late President Thomas Sankara.De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore, "Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, p. 22.

The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both President Sankara and the party's leader. The party subscribed to Sankarism.

At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara took second place with 4.88% of the popular vote. At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party won four seats.

Political scientist states that the UNIR/PS was among the opposition parties that participated in the 2014 uprising that ousted Blaise Compaoré, but that it "did not play a major role". The UNIR/PS went on to support the government of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.Bettina Engels, "Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, pp. 264-265.

On 1 November 2021, it was announced that the party merged with the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Salut and other small Sankarist parties and organisations into a new party, the Union pour la Renaissance/ Mouvement patriotique sankariste (Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement) or UNIR/MPS. Bénéwendé Sankara continued to lead this party until he was succeeded by interim president Augustin Loada in January 2023. All parties, including this one, were dissolved through decree by the junta government in Burkina Faso on 29 January 2026.

Electoral history National Assembly Election year # of overall votes % of overall vote # of overall seats won +/– 2002 42,599 2.45 (#) 2007 90,705 3.89 (#4) 1 2012 131,592 4.36 (#4) 2015 118,662 3.76 (#5) 1 2020 68,727 2.45 (#6)

Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party

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