Republican Party for Liberty

Republican Party for Liberty
Parti Républicain pour la Liberté
FounderNazi Boni
Founded8 October 1959
Dissolved6 January 1960
Preceded byParti national voltaïque[1]
Continental affiliationPRA

The Republican Party for Liberty (French: Parti Républicain pour la Liberté, PRL) was a political party in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). The PRL was founded in 1959 by Nazi Boni as a reaction to the attempts by the Voltaic Democratic Union to create a one-party state. Boni built his new party largely out of the ashes of the defunct African Regroupment Party (PRA).

PRL was short-lived and failed to make any major impact. Boni went into exile in Dakar, Senegal.

References

  1. ^ "Burkina / 62 ans après l'indépendance : Retour sur le cheminement de 1957 à 1960".
  • Englebert, Pierre. La Revolution Burkinabè. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.