Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement

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Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement (French: Congrès Organisation pour la Démocratie Populaire - Mouvement du Travail) was the ruling political party in Burkina Faso. It was founded in April 1989 by the Union of Burkinabè Communists, the Revolutionary Military Organization (OMR) and factions from Communist Struggle Union - The Flame and Burkinabè Communist Group as a Party based on Marxism, but strongly pragmatic, adopting the free market in its economic plan.

In February 1996 the ODP-MT became a founding organization of the Congress for Democracy and Progress.

At the parliamentary elections of May 24, 1992 it won 48.2 % of the popular vote and 70 out of 107 seats.

The ODP-MT was led by Arsène Bongnessan Yé, Nabaho Kanidoua and Marc Christian Roch Kaboré.

It published Yeelen.