Scout Alliance

Scout Alliance
Alliance Éclaireur
PresidentEdmond Agoua (at founding)
General SecretaryCyriaque Tossa (at founding)
Governing bodyEleven-member executive bureau (at founding)
FounderEdmond Agoua
Founded20 February 2015 (2015-02-20)
Parliamentary group (2015)Republic and National Unity (RUN)
National Assembly (2015 election)2 / 83
Election symbol
Red torch

The Scout Alliance (French: Alliance Éclaireur) was a political alliance in Benin, founded in February 2015 with Edmond Agoua as president. It won two seats in the National Assembly at the 2015 parliamentary election. In December 2018, La Nation reported that the alliance had merged into the newly formed Progressive Union.

History

The alliance was launched at the Palais des congrès in Cotonou on 20 February 2015. Agoua, leader of the Party for Democracy and Social Progress, was elected president of its eleven-member executive bureau. Cyriaque Tossa was appointed secretary-general. Its symbol was a red torch.

In the parliamentary election on 26 April 2015, the alliance received 100,741 votes, or 3.42% of the total, and won two of the National Assembly's 83 seats. Its elected representatives were Agoua and Gounou Salifou Abdoulaye. Its deputies joined the Republic and National Unity parliamentary group (République et Unité Nationale, RUN), which supported President Thomas Boni Yayi. The group also included deputies from the Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin, the Union for Benin and the National Alliance for Democracy and Development.

In November 2018, Agoua's reported decision to join the Progressive Bloc was opposed by Salomon Chabi, president of the New Alliance for Development, a member of the alliance. Chabi said that the member organisations had not met to agree on the alliance's political direction. The Progressive Union held its founding congress in Cotonou on 1 December 2018. La Nation listed the Scout Alliance among the parties and movements that dissolved into the new party.

Composition

The founding parties and movements listed by La Presse du Jour were:

References

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  8. ↑ "Liste des députés par partis ou alliances politiques" (PDF) (in French). Assemblée nationale du Bénin. p. 4. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
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  10. ↑ LNT (16 November 2018). "Fusion avec le Bloc progressiste au Bénin : Edmond Agoua désavoué". La Nouvelle Tribune (in French). Retrieved 2 October 2026.
  11. ↑ Adamon, Afize D. (2019). Les élections législatives du 26 avril 2015 au Bénin (in French). Cotonou: Éditions COPEF. pp. 157–158.