Benin: The Break Between Patrice Talon's UP-R and Adrien Houngbedji's PRD

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In Benin, the ideal between the Progressive Union, the support of Patrice Talon and the Party for Democratic Renewal of Veteran Adrien Houngbedji, who gave birth to the UP-R in 2022, seems to be already about to be completed. PRD's deputy secretary-general confesses that their activists no longer feel comfortable in this merger. Problem: the Ministry of the Interior considers that "merger" means "dissolution" and that the PRD and its attributes …