Unity and Progress Party

For the party of the Young Turk movement in the Ottoman Empire, see Committee of Union and Progress.

Unity and Progress Party Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès
Abbreviation	PUP
Leader	Elhadj Moussa Solano
Secretary-General	Aboubacar Somparé (1995–2002)
Co-founder	Lansana Conté
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Conakry
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The Unity and Progress Party (French: Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès, PUP, founded in 1992) is a political party in Guinea. It functioned as the ruling party during much of the long rule (1984-2008) of President Lansana Conté. In terms of ideology, the PUP advocates the unity of Guineans and economic liberalism.

In the parliamentary election held on 30 June 2002, the party won 61.57% of the popular vote and 85 out of 114 seats. Its candidate in the 21 December 2003 presidential election, Lansana Conté, won 95.25% of the vote; however, opposition groups generally boycotted this election.

Following Conté's death on December 22, 2008, members of the military seized power in a coup d'état, ending the rule of the PUP. The party has continued to exist since the coup, although in a severely weakened form. It nominated Aboubacar Somparé - a prominent figure in the Conté regime and the man who would have been the constitutional successor to Conté had the military not intervened - as its candidate for the June 2010 presidential election, but he received only about 1% of the vote.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	Result
		First round		Second round
1993	Lansana Conté	1,077,017	51.7%	-	-	Elected Y
1998		1,455,007	56.1%	-	-	Elected Y
2003			95.6%	-	-	Elected Y
2010	Aboubacar Somparé		0.95%	-	-	Lost N

National Assembly elections

Election	Votes	%	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
	Constituency		Proportional
1995	990,184	53.5%			71 / 114	71	1st	Majority government
2002	1,947,318	61.5%			85 / 114	14	1st	Supermajority government
2013			13,503	0.43%	0 / 114	85	17th	Extra-parliamentary

Notable members

Lansana Conté
Aboubacar Somparé
Charles Fassou Sagno
Lamine Sidimé
Elhadj Moussa Solano