Native Name: | Parti Progressiste Dahoméen |
Colorcode: | brown |
Foundation: | 1958 |
Country: | Benin |
Founder: | Sourou-Migan Apithy Hubert Maga |
Dissolved: | 1959 |
Merger: | Republican Party of Dahomey Dahomeyan Democratic Rally |
Successor: | Dahomeyan Unity Party |
The Dahomeyan Progressive Party (French: Parti Progressiste Dahoméen, PPD) was a short-lived political party in French Dahomey.
The party was established in 1958 as by the merger of the Republican Party of Dahomey led by Sourou-Migan Apithy and the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally led by Hubert Maga.[1] It affiliated with the African Regroupment Party.[1]
However, the party collapsed the following year due to internal disagreements over the future relationship with France. As a result, the two factions split back into the original parties.[1] The following year they merged again, this time alongside the National Liberation Movement to form the Dahomeyan Unity Party.[2]