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Party of Independents (Upper Volta)

political party in Upper Volta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ7141086 ↗
Source-derived summary

Party of Independents (French: Parti des Indépendents) was a political party in Upper Volta (known as Burkina Faso since August 1984). The party was formed through a split in the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV-RDA). The party contested the 1970 elections.

References

Englebert, Pierre. La Revolution Burkinabè. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Party of Independents (Upper Volta)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.