Parti_Républicain_Démocratique_et_Social
Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal
Political party in Mauritania
The Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal (Arabic: الحزب الجمهوري للديموقراطية والتجديد; French: Parti républicain pour la démocratie et le renouvellement, PRDR) is a political party in Mauritania. Formerly known as the Democratic and Social Republican Party, (French: Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social, PRDS) the party changed its identity and adjusted its political stance after the 2005 coup.[1] Formerly very supportive of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya and his pro-Israeli policy, after the August 2005 coup, the party denounced Taya's policies and the mid-2006 Israeli military campaign in Lebanon.
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In the 2001 parliamentary elections, the party won 64 out of 81 seats.
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, one of the bloc's members, was nominated as Prime Minister a few days after the 2005 coup.[2]
The now-PRDR won seven seats in the November–December 2006 parliamentary election[3] and in the 21 January and 4 February 2007 Senate elections, three out of 56 seats.
As of 2008[update], the PRDR is part of the Mithaq El Wihda coalition and is led by Sidi Mohamed Ould Mohamed Vall.[4]
