Union of Democratic Forces (Mauritania)

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|name = Union of Democratic Forces - New Era

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|secretary_general = Ahmed Ould Daddah

|foundation = 1991

|dissolution = October 2000

|successor = Rally of Democratic Forces

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|country = Mauritania

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The Union of Democratic Forces-New Era (Union des Forces Démocratiques-Ère Nouvelle) was a political party in Mauritania, founded in 1991, and banned and dissolved in 2000. The Secretary-general of the party was Ahmed Ould Daddah. In February 1997 the five-party Front of Opposition Parties (FPO), including the UFD-EN, was formed;[http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/3ae6aaee8c.html "Mauritania: Information on the Union of Democratic Forces (UFD), including its status, the names of its executive and on problems experienced by this political party"], Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada, UNHCR.org. it boycotted the December 1997 presidential election, in which President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was easily re-elected.Amale Samie, [http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives302/html_302/Nouakchout.html "La Démocratie en Marche"], maroc-hebdo.press.ma {{in lang|fr}}.

The party was weakened by a number of splits during its existence. In 1998, a faction of the party led by Mohamed Ould Maouloud, which was known as the UFD/B and later became the Union of the Forces of Progress, split from the faction under Daddah's leadership. The UFD-EN under Daddah's leadership boycotted the January 1999 local election, in which the faction under Ould Maouloud participated.[http://www.ufpweb.org/presentation_ufp/hist.htm History of the UFP at the party's web site] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928131553/http://www.ufpweb.org/presentation_ufp/hist.htm |date=September 28, 2007 }} {{in lang|fr}}.

In October 2000, the UFD-EN was dissolved by the Government, which alleged that it incited violence and harmed national interests. A successor party, the Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD), was subsequently established, with Daddah as its president.[http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/42df613fb.html "Mauritania: Update to MRT39363.E of 25 September 2002 on the Union of Democratic Forces-New Era (Union des forces démocratiques-Ère nouvelle, UFD-EN) and its successor, the Rally of Democratic Forces (Rassemblement des forces démocratiques, RFD), including the treatment of its members by government authorities (2002-October 2004)"], Responses to Information Requests, Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada, UNHCR.org.