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And-J�f / PADS (Senegal)

Parti Africain pour la D�mocratie et le Socialisme - African Party for Democracy and Socialism

image by Ivan Sache, 17 January 2010

The Party
The Flag

See also:

Senegal

The Party

And-J�f / PADS (Parti Africain pour la D �mocratie et le Socialisme - African Party for Democracy and Socialism) was founded on 14 December 1991 as the merger of four leftist organizations:

And-J�f / MRDN (Mouvement R�volutionnaire pour la D�mocratie Nouvelle - Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy), a Maoist movement founded on 28 December 1974 by Landing Savan� during the clandestine congress of the forbidden organization Reenu-Rew (in Wolof, The Roots of the Nation), eventually legalized in July 1981
UDP (Union pour la D�mocratie Populaire - Union for People's Democracy), a party founded in 1981 by Hamedine Racine Guiss�, sometimes considered as pro-Albanian
OST (Organisation Socialiste des Travailleurs - Workers' Socialist Organization), a Trotskyst movement founded in 1973 in France by Ndongo and Babacar Doudou, as GOR (Groupement des Ouvriers R�volutionnaires - Revolutionary Workers' Group), eventually legalized in 1982
Cercle des Lecteurs de Suxxuba (Suxxuba Readers' Circle), a pan-African movement founded by Malick Ndiaye.

"And j�f" means "Act Together" in Wolof. Based at Dakar and chaired by Landing Savan�, the party won four seats in the National Assembly in 1998 but could keep only two seats in 2001. Savan� competed in the presidential election in 1988 (0.25% of the votes), 1993 (2.9%) and 2007 (supported by a leftist coalition, 2.1%). Vice- president of the National Assembly from July 1998 to March 2000, Savan� was appointed Minister of Mines, Crafts and Industry in April 2000, and, subsequently, Minister of State under the President (May 2005-February 2007, March 2008-May 2009).

http://andjefpads.centerblog.net/1-HISTORIQUE-DE-AND-JEF--PADS - And-J�f / PADS blog

The Flag

The flag of And-J�f / PADS is described in the party's statutes, adopted in Dakar on 15 February 1998 during the second congress of the party, as follows:

"Article 4. The emblem of And-J�f / PADS is made as follows: "A golden flag charged with a black circle inscribing the map of Africa on a red background in its lower half a black star symbolizing Senegal." [...]"

http://andjefpads.centerblog.net/3-STATUTS - And-J�f / PADS blog

The description of the emblem is quite ambiguous. The website of the party shows the emblem as a disk outlined in black, divided red-yellow by the descending diagonal, with a map of Africa counter-coloured and the black star on the diagonal.
http://apdasn.com/ajpads
Ivan Sache, 17 January 2010