Sankarist Pan-African Convention
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The Sankarist Pan-African Convention (French: Convention Panafricaine Sankariste) is a political party in Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta. CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the Social Forces Front.
The party is led by Ernest Nongma Ouédraogo, former Minister of Security in the government of Thomas Sankara.
At the last legislative elections, 5 May 2002, the party won 2.6 % of the popular vote and 3 out of 111 seats.