Burkinabé Socialist Party Explained

Burkinabé Socialist Party
Leader:Ouindélassida François Ouédraogo
Foundation:Early 1990s
Dissolved:2001
Split:African Independence Party
Merged:Party for Democracy and Progress
Ideology:Socialism
Position:Left-wing
Country:Burkina Faso

Burkinabé Socialist Party (in French: Party Socialiste Burkinabé) was a political party in Burkina Faso. The PSB split from the PAI in the early 1990s. Its leader was Ouindélassida François Ouédraogo.

At the legislative elections in 1992, the PSB won 1.2% of the popular vote and 1 out of 111 seats. In 1997, it won 1.8% of the vote and one seat.

In May 2001, it merged with the Party for Democracy and Progress.