Dahomeyan Democratic Movement

The MDD was established in northern Dahomey by Hubert Maga in 1951 as the Ethnic Group of the North (Groupement Ethnique du Nord, GEN). Maga had previously been a member of the ruling Dahomeyan Progressive Union, but was encouraged to split from the party by the local French administrator Roger Péperty.Mathurin C. Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012) Historical Dictionary of Benin, Scarecrow Press, p247 Maga gained support from his Bariba people, and won one of the two Dahomey seats in the French National Assembly in the June 1951 elections.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erste Halbband, p530 {{in lang|de}}

The party won 9 of the 32 second college seats in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections, emerging as the second-largest faction behind the Republican Party of Dahomey.Joseph-Roger de Benoist (1982) Afrique occidentale française de 1944 à 1960, p540 In 1953 it became the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement.Houngnikpo & Decalo, p193 Maga was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1956.

The MDD was reduced to six seats in the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, and in August 1957, it merged with the Independents of the North party led by Paul Darboux to form the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally.Houngnikpo & Decalo, p305

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