| Union for the Republic | |
| Native Name: | الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية |
| President: | Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar |
| Founder: | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
| Foundation: | 5 May 2009[1] |
| Dissolved: | 3 July 2022 |
| Successor: | Equity Party |
| Ideology: | Populism |
| Position: | Centre[2] [3] to centre-right[4] |
| Headquarters: | Nouakchott |
| International: | Centrist Democrat International |
| Website: | www.upr.mr |
| Country: | Mauritania |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| National: | Coalition of the Majority |
The Union for the Republic (ar|الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; fr|Union pour la République, UPR) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was formed on 5 May 2009 by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.[6] [7]
As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.[8] Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.[9] On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision,[10] while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.[12]
The party refounded itself as the Equity Party on 3 July 2022.[13]
| Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | Result | Winning candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Rank | Votes | % | Rank | |||
| 2009 | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | 409,024 | 52.54 | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | ||||
| 2014 | 577,995 | 81.89 | ||||||
| 2019 | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | 483,007 | 52.00 | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | ||||
| Election | Party leader | PR seats | Women's seats | Constituency seats | Seats | +/– | Position | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | First round | Second round | |||||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||||
| 2013 | Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine | 127,580 | 21.34% | 138,651 | 24.74% | 299,605 | 39.21% | 124,656 | 55.11% | 75 | 1st | |
| 2018 | 136,809 | 19.47% | 135,831 | 19.60% | 18 | 1st | ||||||