Voltaic Labour Party Parti Travailliste Voltaïque | |
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Founder | François de Salles Kaboré[1] |
Founded | 1970[2] |
Banned | 1974[1] |
Ideology | Centre-left |
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The Voltaic Labour Party (in French: Parti Travailliste Voltaïque), was a centre-left political party in Upper Volta. PTV contested the 1970 elections, without any significant result.
PTV functioned as the political branch of the Voltaic Organization of Free Trade Unions (OVSL).
References
[edit]- ^ a b McFarland, Daniel Miles; Rupley, Lawrence (1998). Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso (PDF). African Historical Dictionaries (2 ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0810834057. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ Simon, Marc (April 1972). "Haute-Volta, une démocratie avortée?" [Upper Volta, an aborted democracy?]. Esprit (413): 868. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- Englebert, Pierre. La Revolution Burkinabè. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.