Unity and Progress Party

For the party of the Young Turk movement in the Ottoman Empire, see Committee of Union and Progress.

The Unity and Progress Party (French: Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès, PUP, founded in 1992) is a political party in Guinea. It functioned as the ruling party during much of the long rule (1984-2008) of President Lansana Conté. In terms of ideology, the PUP advocates the unity of Guineans and economic liberalism.

Unity and Progress Party Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès
Abbreviation	PUP
Co-founder	Lansana Conté
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Conakry
Ideology	African nationalism Economic liberalism Authoritarianism Anti-socialism
Political position	Right-wing
Politics of Guinea Political parties Elections

In the parliamentary election held on 30 June 2002, the party won 61.57% of the popular vote and 85 out of 114 seats. Its candidate in the 21 December 2003 presidential election, Lansana Conté, won 95.25% of the vote; however, opposition groups generally boycotted this election.

Following Conté's death on December 22, 2008, members of the military seized power in a coup d'état, ending the rule of the PUP. The party has continued to exist since the coup, although in a severely weakened form. It nominated Aboubacar Somparé - a prominent figure in the Conté regime and the man who would have been the constitutional successor to Conté had the military not intervened - as its candidate for the June 2010 presidential election, but he received only about 1% of the vote.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	Result
		First round		Second round
1993	Lansana Conté	1,077,017	51.7%	-	-	Elected Y
1998		1,455,007	56.1%	-	-	Elected Y
2003			95.6%	-	-	Elected Y
2010	Aboubacar Somparé		0.95%	-	-	Lost N

National Assembly elections

Election	Votes	%	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
	Constituency		Proportional
1995	990,184	53.5%			71 / 114	71	1st	Majority government
2002	1,947,318	61.5%			85 / 114	14	1st	Supermajority government
2013			13,503	0.43%	0 / 114	85	17th	Extra-parliamentary