African Development Movement
Appearance
The African Development Movement (French: Mouvement Africain de Développement, MAD) was a political party in Gabon led by Pierre Claver Zeng Ebome.
MAD contested the 2001 parliamentary elections to win Zeng Ebome a seat in the National Assembly. He retained it in the 2006 elections, wherein MAD was part of a bloc supporting the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party.[1] He lost it in the 2011 elections.
MAD held its Fourth Congress on 10 February 2008, reaffirming its participation in the Presidential Majority and reelecting Zeng Ebome as its president.[2] In 2010, it was one of several parties that had merged into the National Union.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Elections in Gabon African Elections Database
- ^ "Gabon : Le MAD en rangs serrés pour les élections locales" Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine, Gaboneco, 11 February 2008 (in French).
- ^ Gabonese opposition forms new party IOL, 10 February 2010