Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal

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The Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal (PRDR) (Parti Républicain Démocratique et Renouvellement) is a political party in Mauritania. Formerly known as the Democratic and Social Republican Party, the grouping has changed its identity and adjusted its political stance following the 2005 coup. Formerly supportive of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya and his pro-Israeli stance, the party has since denounced Taya's policies and the mid-2006 Israeli military campaign in Lebanon.

At the last legislative elections, on the 19th and 26th October 2001, the party won 51.0 % of the popular vote and 64 out of 81 seats under its former PRDS. The elections were deemed neither free nor fair. Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, one of the bloc's members, was nominated as Prime Minister a few days after the 2005 coup.