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This article lists Mauritius political parties in alphabetical order. Mauritius has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no single party usually has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Historically, Mauritius's government has been led by the Labour Party or the MSM for the exception of short periods from 1982 to 1983 and 2003–2005 where the MMM was at the head of the country. L'Alliance Lepep, a coalition of several political parties including MSM, Muvman Liberater and PMSD, won the 2014 elections. [3]
The Labour Party; This is the oldest surviving political party on the island and remains one of the main parties on the political front. It was formed in 1936 by a group of people including Maurice Curé, Renganaden Seeneevassen, Mamode Hassenjee and Emmanuel Anquetil, Jean Prosper, Hassenjee Jeetoo, Barthelemy Ohsan, Samuel Barbe, Godefroy Moutia and Pandit Sahadeo.
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The party tends to be more popular amongst Indo-Mauritians. The MSM is one of the 4 main political parties in the country; the others being the Labour Party or Parti Travailliste (PTr), Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) and Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD). The MSM is the only political party in the history of Mauritius to be formed ...
The political party or party alliance which wins the majority of seats in the Assembly forms the government and its leader usually becomes the Prime Minister. It is the Prime Minister who selects the members of the composition of the Cabinet from elected members of the Assembly, except for the Attorney General, who may not be an elected member ...
The Independence Party was the name of a coalition of 3 major political parties on the island of Mauritius in the 1960s and 1970s. It was also commonly known as Parti de L'indépendance . It was formed in 1966 to unite the Labour Party (Mauritius) , Independent Forward Bloc (IFB) and Comité d'Action Musulman (CAM) at the time when the island ...
The Labour Party (French: Parti Travailliste, PTr) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Mauritius. It is one of four main Mauritian political parties, along with the Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM), the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) and the Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD). The party is led by Navin Ramgoolam.