| Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party | |
| Leader: | Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara |
| Foundation: | 2000 |
| Dissolution: | 2021 |
| Merged: | Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement |
| Ideology: | Sankarism Socialism |
| Position: | Left-wing |
| Slogan: | "Avec le Peuple, Victoire!" ("With the People, Victory!") |
| Seats1 Title: | National Assembly |
| Website: | Union pour la Renaissance / Mouvement Sankariste, UNIR/MS |
| Country: | Burkina Faso |
The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (French: Union pour la Renaissance / Parti Sankariste, UNIR / PS) was a political party in Burkina Faso.
The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is lawyer Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara,[1] who bears no family relationship to Thomas Sankara.[2]
The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both the late President Thomas Sankara and the party's current leader. The party subscribes to Sankarism.
At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara took second place with 4.88% of the popular vote.[3] At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party won four seats.
Political scientist states that the UNIR/PS was among the opposition parties that participated in the 2014 uprising that ousted Blaise Compaoré, but that it "did not play a major role". The UNIR/PS went on to support the government of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.[4]
On November 1st, 2021, it was announced that the party merged with the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Salut and other small Sankarist parties and organisations into a new party, the Union pour la Renaissance/ Mouvement patriotique sankariste (Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement) or UNIR/MPS.[5] [6] Bénéwendé Sankara continued to lead this party until he was succeeded by interim president Augustin Loada in January 2023.[7]
| Election year |
| % of overall vote |
| +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 42,599 | 2.45 (#) | |||
| 2007 | 90,705 | 3.89 (#4) | 1 | ||
| 2012 | 131,592 | 4.36 (#4) | |||
| 2015 | 118,662 | 3.76 (#5) | 1 | ||
| 2020 | 68,727 | 2.45 (#6) |