Parmehutu
Sign in to saveThe Hutu Emancipation Movement Party (, Parmehutu), also known as the Republican Democratic Movement – Parmehutu (Mouvement démocratique républicain – Parmehutu, MDR-Parmehutu), was a political party in Rwanda. The movement emphasised the right of the majority ethnicity to rule and asserted the supremacy of Hutus over Tutsis. It was the most important party of the "Hutu Revolution" of 1959–61 that led to Rwanda becoming an independent republic and Hutus superseding Tutsis as the ruling group.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Hutu Emancipation Movement Party
- Political party.native_name
- Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu
- Political party.abbreviation
- Parmehutu
- Political party.founder
- Grégoire Kayibanda
- Political party.successor
- National Revolutionary Movement for Development
- Political party.headquarters
- Kigali, Rwanda
- Political party.ideology
- Anti-monarchismAnti-communismHutu Power
- Political party.position
- Far-right
- Political party.country
- Rwanda
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- Chamber of Deputies elections
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The Hutu Emancipation Movement Party (, Parmehutu), also known as the Republican Democratic Movement – Parmehutu (Mouvement démocratique républicain – Parmehutu, MDR-Parmehutu), was a political party in Rwanda. The movement emphasised the right of the majority ethnicity to rule and asserted the supremacy of Hutus over Tutsis. It was the most important party of the "Hutu Revolution" of 1959–61 that led to Rwanda becoming an independent republic and Hutus superseding Tutsis as the ruling group.
==History== The party was founded by Grégoire Kayibanda in June 1957 as the Hutu Social Movement, a party of Hutu nationalists who fought on behalf of the Hutu majority, which it considered oppressed. It was renamed on 25 September 1959, and dominated the local elections in 1960, winning 2,390 of 3,125 elected communal council seats and 160 of 229 burgomasters.
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