And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism

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The And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism (And-Jëf/Parti Africain pour la démocratie et le socialisme) is a socialist political party in Senegal led by Landing Savané. At the last legislative elections, held on 29 April 2001, the party won 4.1 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 120 seats.

And-Jëf/PADS was founded in 1991, through the merger of And-Jëf / Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy, Socialist Workers Organisation, Union for Peoples Democracy and circle of readers of Suxuba. Savané ran as the party's presidential candidate in the 1993 election, taking 2.91% of the vote.^[1] The party backed Abdoulaye Wade in the 2000 presidential election, and after Wade's victory the party gained a presence in the government. Savané ran as the party's candidate again in the February 2007 presidential election, and he said that the party's alliance with Wade would end after the election regardless of the winner.^[2] In the election, Savané took seventh place with 2.07% of the vote.^[3] Shortly after the election, the AJ/PADS ministers resigned from the government.^[4]