The Rally for Mali (French: Rassemblement pour le Mali; RPM) is a Malian political party created by former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in June 2001.

Rally for Mali
Rassemblement pour le Mali
AbbreviationRPM
PresidentBocary Treta
FounderIbrahim Boubacar Keïta
Founded2001
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left
International affiliationSocialist International
ColorsGreen, yellow
National Assembly
51 / 147
Website
http://rpm.ml/

The RPM is a full member of the Socialist International.[1] The symbol of the party is a weaver.

History

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In October 2000, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the former prime minister of Mali, resigned from incumbent President Alpha Oumar Konaré's party, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (ADEMA-PASJ), over which he had presided since 1994. In February 2001, with activists and executives in tow, Keïta created the movement Alternative 2002 to back his bid for president. The Rally for Mali followed in June.

In the first round of the presidential election, held in April 2002, Keïta won 21.04% of the vote, finishing third, after the official candidate of the ADEMA-PASJ, Soumaïla Cissé, and the winner, former acting president Amadou Toumani Touré.

Along with the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID) and the Patriotic Movement for Renewal (MPR), Rally for Mali was part of the Hope 2002 coalition for the 2002 legislative election, after which it became the second biggest political party in parliament, with 45 deputies.

The Rally won roughly 13% of the vote in the municipal elections of 30 May 2004.

In January 2007, Keïta was again designated as the party's candidate for the April 2007 presidential election.[2] In the election, he took second place behind Touré, receiving 19.15% of the vote.[3] The RPM, part of the opposition Front for Democracy and the Republic (FDR), won 11 out of 147 seats in the July 2007 parliamentary election.[4]

In 2013, the RPM won both the presidential and parliamentary elections, after Mali transitioned back to democracy following a military coup.

Electoral history

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Presidential elections

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Election Party candidate Votes % Votes % Result
First Round Second Round
2007 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 433,897 19.15% - - Lost  N
2013 1,222,657 39.23% 2,354,693 77.61% Elected  Y
2018 1,331,132 41.70% 1,798,632 67.17% Elected  Y

National Assembly elections

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Election Party leader Votes % Seats +/–
2002 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
46 / 160
  46
2007
11 / 160
  35
2013 708,716 29.4%
66 / 147
  55
2020
51 / 147
  15

References

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