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The Nigerien Progressive Union ( French: Union progressiste nigérienne, UPN) was a political party in Niger led by Georges Condat. [1]
The party was founded on March 15, 1953, as a breakaway from the Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers (UNIS) over the issue of forming a united front with the Nigerien Progressive Party. [2] [3] [4]
A joint list of UPN and the Nigerien Action Bloc (BNA) of Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye received some 126,000 votes in the January 1956 French parliamentary elections. [2] [5] The list was the most voted-for, finishing in first place in seven provinces, and Condat won one of the two seats in the French National Assembly. [5] The UPN later merged into BNA. [2] [5]