| People's Progressive Alliance | |
| Native Name: | Alliance populaire progressiste |
| President: | Messoud Ould Boulkheir |
| Ideology: | Nasserism Social democracy Haratin interests |
| Position: | Centre-left |
| Headquarters: | Nouakchott |
| Website: | APP website |
| Country: | Mauritania |
| Seats1 Title: | Seats in the National Assembly: |
The People's Progressive Alliance (French: Alliance populaire progressiste, APP) is a small political party in Mauritania.
The President of the APP is Messoud Ould Boulkheir,[1] who was a candidate in the November 2003 presidential election, which was won by President Mu'awiya al-Taya.[2] [3]
After al-Taya's ouster in August 2005, Boulkheir stood as the APP candidate again in the March 2007 presidential election. In this election, held on March 11, he placed fourth, receiving 9.79% of the vote;[4] he subsequently backed Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi for the second round,[5] despite the participation of the APP in the Coalition of the Forces for Democratic Change along with the other second round candidate, Ahmed Ould Daddah.[6] Abdallahi won the election, and in April 2007, Boulkheir was elected as President of the National Assembly.[7]
The APP won 5 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritania in the 2006 parliamentary election, along with another two seats won jointly with the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (HATEM).[8] In the government of Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane, named in April 2007, three members of the APP were appointed as ministers.[9] In the 21 January and 4 February 2007 Senate election, the APP won only one out of 56 seats.
On September 2, 2007, Boulkheir said that the APP would not join a new party being formed to support Abdallahi.[10]
Following the August 2008 military coup d'état, the APP, along with the pro-Abdallahi National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL), joined the four-party National Front for the Defense of Democracy, which opposed the coup.[11]
As of 2023, the APP party has no representation in the Mauritanian Parliament, it has zero seats.[12]