Hope Mauritania

Hope Mauritania (Arabic: أمل موريتانيا, romanized: amal mūrītānyā, French: Espoir Mauritanie) is a coalition of several political movements in Mauritania formed with the intention of running in the 2023 parliamentary, regional and local elections. As of 2023, the coalition Hope Mauritania has 7 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritania.^[2]

Hope Mauritania أمل موريتانيا Espoir Mauritanie
Abbreviation	أم (Arabic) EM (French)
Leader	Collective leadership
Founded	22 December 2022
Split from	Coalition Living Together Rally of Democratic Forces Union of the Forces of Progress
Headquarters	Nouakchott
Ideology	Egalitarianism Multiracialism Reformism Minority rights Anti-tribalism Anti-slavery Anti-establishment
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing[1]
Parliamentary group	FRUD group
Members	See composition
National Assembly	7 / 176
Regional councils	4 / 285
Mayors	0 / 238
Politics of Mauritania Political parties Elections

History

The coalition was formally presented and launched in the Old Youth House of Nouakchott, Mauritania, on 22 December 2022, in a ceremony hosted by the Republican Front for Unity and Democracy (FRUD), the only party legally registered of all forming the coalition.^[3][4]

On 7 February 2023, the coalition decided its main candidates for the 2023 parliamentary, regional and local elections. Elid Ould Mohameden and Coumba Dada Kane will lead the mixed national list, Kadiata Malick Diallo will head the women's list and Khally Mamadou Diallo will lead the youth list.^[5]

Ideology

Hope Mauritania opposes the government of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, stressing that "it is based on discrimination and excessive societal political exclusion", noting that "citizens who have lost hope in the various crisis, have been alienated day after day from their legitimate aspirations for a state of law based on the basic principles of human rights that guarantees equality of opportunity, in the wealth of the country, the access to civil status, the right to acquire education and employment, together with a final rejection of slavery, whether modern or traditional".^[4]

In another statement, the coalition said it was "against the marginalization of women, patriarchy, misogyny, the infantilization of youth, mass unemployment, birth inequalities, racism, hunger, the destruction of vital ecosystems, the failure of public health, the arrogance of the elites of ignorance and of the commodity, the reason of arms and the unreason of resignation".^[6]

Composition

Legally recognised parties
	Republican Front for Unity and Democracy (FRUD)
Unregistered parties and organisations
	Gathering of Progressive Democrats (RDP)
	Bloc of Serious Change (MCC)
	Democratic Popular Movement
	Inclusive Mauritania
	Strong Mauritania Party (PMF)

Ex-MP Kadiata Malick Diallo (ex-UFP) and MPs Mohamed Lemine Ould Sidi Maouloud (ex-Choura) and Elid Ould Mohameden (ex-RFD) also joined the coalition,^[7] together with activists El Salek Najem and Abderrahman Hamoudi, intellectual Dr. Abou El Abass Ould Brahim and political actor Achraf Ould Hamoud.^[8][9]

Electoral performance

President of Mauritania

President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Election year	Candidate	1st round			2nd round			Result	Winning candidate
		Votes	%	Rank	Votes	%	Rank
2024	El Id Ould Mohameden	35,278	3.57%	4th	—			Lost	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

National Assembly

National Assembly
Election	Party leader	National list		Seats	+/–	Government
		Votes	%
2023	Collective leadership	32,296	3.33%	7 / 176	7	Opposition

See also

• Coordination of Parties of the Majority
• State of Justice Coalition