Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism

Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism-Tarayya
Parti Nigérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme-Tarayya
LeaderMohamed Bazoum
PresidentFoumakoye Gado
Secretary-GeneralHassoumi Massaoudou
SpokespersonIro Sani
FoundedDecember 23, 1990 (1990-12-23)
Headquarters613 Avenue de l’OUA, BP 10894, Niamey
Youth wingOJT (Organisation des Jeunes Tarayya)
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Social democracy
Political positionCentre-left[1]
International affiliationProgressive Alliance
Socialist International (since 1996)
ColorsPink
National Assembly
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Website
pnds-tarayya.net
Mahamadou Issoufou speaking to the press during his 2004 election campaign.

The Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (French: Parti Nigerien pour la Democratie et le Socialisme, PNDS-Tarayya) is a political party in Niger. It is a broadly left-leaning party, part of the Socialist International;[2] it came to power in 2011 following the election of the former long-time leader Mahamadou Issoufou. Mohamed Bazoum is the former president of the party and the former Secretary-General is Foumakoye Gado.

"Tarayya" means "gathering" in the Hausa language.[3]

  1. ^ "NIGER : élections parlementaires en Assemblée nationale, 1999". archive.ipu.org. Retrieved 11 March 2021..
  2. ^ List of Socialist International parties.
  3. ^ PNDS, Par (22 November 2019). "Notre histoire : Parti Nigérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme – PNDS". PNDS TARAYYA (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-02.