Democratic Alternation Pole
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Democratic Alternation Pole قطب التناوب الديمقراطي Pôle de l'Alternance Démocratique | |
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| Abbreviation | DAP |
| Leader | Biram Dah Abeid |
| Founded | 31 May 2018 |
| Headquarters | Nouakchott |
| Ideology | Anti-establishment Factions: Anti-slavery Haratine interests Arab nationalism Ba'athism Saddamism |
| Parliamentary group | Non-attached |
| Members | See composition |
| National Assembly | 5 / 176 |
| Regional councils | 12 / 285 |
| Mayors | 1 / 238 |
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The Democratic Alternation Pole (Arabic: قطب التناوب الديمقراطي, romanized: qiṭb at-tanāwwub ad-dīmuqrāṭi, French: Pôle de l'Alternance Démocratique) is a Mauritanian political coalition between Sawab and the legally unrecognized Refoundation for a Global Action parties founded on 31 May 2018 ahead of the 2018 parliamentary and 2019 presidential elections.
The alliance was founded on 31 May 2018 as a pragmatic alliance between the Ba'athist Sawab and the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) led by anti-slavery and Haratine interests activist Biram Dah Abeid, who saw his Refoundation for a Global Action (RAG) party legally unrecognized by the Ministry of Interior, thus not being allowed to contest elections on its own.[1][2]
