| LC control no. | no 95002845 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Mouvement patriotique du salut (Chad) |
| Variant(s) | Ḥarikah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Inqādh MPS Patriotic Salvation Movement (Chad) الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ |
| Beginning date | 1990-03-10 |
| Associated country | Chad |
| Associated place | Sudan |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Le Tchad depuis le 1er décembre 1990, 1992: t.p. (Mouvement patriotique du salut; MPS) Wikipedia, Sep. 29, 2017 (Patriotic Salvation Movement, French: Mouvement Patriotique du Salut, MPS; ruling political party in Chad; the MPS was founded in Sudan on March 10, 1990 through the merger of the April 1 Movement (Idriss Déby and his backers, who had fled to Sudan after unsuccessful plot against President Hissène Habré in 1989) with other anti-Habré groups in exile; Déby and the MPS came to power on December 2, 1990 when their forces entered N'Djamena) Wikipedia, French version, August 10, 2018 (Mouvement patriotique du Salut (MPS); in Arabic الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ = al-Ḥarikah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Inqādh; founded March 11, 1990 by Idris Déby Itno; it was at first a clandestine politico-military movement; in 1990 Déby deposed Hissène Habré and became president of the Republic, and the MPS transformed into a political party; it seeks to transform the Chadian political scene, to fight against the exclusive [one-party] regime of Habré, and to promote democratization by putting multi-partyism into place; origin in socialist thought; along with its principal political allies, the MPS dominates Chadian political life, and is the first political party in number elected, 113 deputies of 175 in the legislative elections of February 2011) |
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