Alliance for Justice and Democracy - Movement for Renovation
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Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal
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| President | Ibrahima Moctar Sarr |
| Founder | Ibrahima Moctar Sarr |
| Founded | August 2007 |
| Ideology | Black minority interests |
| Colors | Black and White |
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| www.ajd-mr.org | |
The Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (Alliance pour la Justice et la Démocratie/Mouvement pour la Rénovation, AJD/MR) is a political party in Mauritania. It represents the black minority population of the south of the country, centered on the Senegal River valley, and was formed and is led by rights activist and former presidential candidate Ibrahima Moctar Sarr. The party's colours are black and white, and its symbol is a Zebu bull, livestock being associated with the traditionally pastoralist Fula people who make up much of its constituency.
The party was founded in August 2007 by a merger of Ibrahima Moctar Sarr's Movement for National Reconciliation and the Alliance for Justice and Democracy (AJD) party, with Sarr elected as the leader of the new party. Sarr, a Fula journalist, had been a high profile activist since the 1980s, and his party defined itself as campaigning for equal rights for Pulaar-speakers, Soninké and Wolof people alongside Moors, and the return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal. Sarr had stood as an independent in the March 2007 presidential election on an anti-racist platform, came in fifth place with 7.95% in the first round and supported Ahmed Ould Daddah for the second round.
On May 10, 2008 the AJD/MR announced they would not participate in the government of Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef due to policy differences.
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