Change 2005

Change 2005 (French: Alternance 2005) was a political alliance in Burkina Faso (the former Upper Volta), founded to contest the presidential election in 2005.[1] The incumbent, Blaise Compaore, was standing for a third term and was expected to win despite claims that another term in office would be unconstitutional.[2] He was re-elected with 80.35% of the votes.[3]

Change 2005
FoundedDecember 2004
IdeologyBig tent
Factions
Communism
Socialism
Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Green politics
Sankarism
Progressivism
Ecologism
Political positionCentre-left to far-left
Politics of Burkina Faso
Constitution (suspended)
Government
Parliament
Administrative divisions
Elections
Foreign relations

Alternance 2005 was founded in December 2004 by 16 leftist parties. The grouping had put forward three candidates for the first round of the election: Hermann Yaméogo, president of Union nationale pour la démocratie et le développement (UNDD - National Union for Democracy and Development), Benewendé Stanislas Sankara of Union pour la renaissance/Mouvement sankariste (UNIR/MS - Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Movement) and Philippe Ouédraogo of the Parti africain de l'indépendance (PAI). However, Ouédraogo, later stood as a candidate for his own party, Rassemblement des écologistes du Burkina (RDEB - Rally of the Ecologists of Burkina) which announced its "retirement" from Alternance 2005 and supported its own candidate.[4]

Sankara, an MP, was one of the most prominent opposition figures in the election though few expected him to make an impression.[2] He received 4.88% of the vote.

The parties forming the alliance were:

References
  1. Francis Wiafe-Amoako, Africa 2016-2017, p 76
  2. "Q&A: Burkina Faso votes ", BBC News, 11 November 2005
  3. Turner, Barry (2010), Turner, Barry (ed.), "Burkina Faso", The Statesman’s Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World 2011, The Statesman’s Yearbook, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 241–244, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-58635-6_135, ISBN 978-1-349-58635-6
  4. Oumarou Kologo, Les dons, phénomène anthropologique au coeur des élections au Burkina Faso: une analyse des comportements électoraux dans la ville de Ouagadougou, chapter 2, note 71. (in French)
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