United Movement of the People
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United Movement of the People | |
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| Chairman | Adebayo Bolaji |
| Founders | Hamid Assimi Bidemi Nwadike Adebayo Bolaji Raphael Chukwu |
| Founded | August 23, 1998 Port Royal, Tiwura |
| Headquarters | 122 Fairchild Street Omamiri, Tiwura |
| Ideology | Socialism Anti-Colonialism Social Conservatism Pan-Bahianism Pro-ROSPO |
| Political position | left-wing |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in Congress | 38 / 282
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| Seats in the Senate | 11 / 120
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The United Movement of the People is a Tiwuran political party that was founded in 1998. The UMP was founded by members of the Social and Civil Liberation Rally who believed that the party's leader and then president Mowiya Sekoni betrayed the mission of the Tiwuran Alliance of Peoples. The UMP's founding members believed that the split between the Irfani and Sotirian members of the party had done great damage to the movement of socialism in Tiwura. The party began with a focus on rejecting Sekoni's lean towards councilism and his friendship with Asase Lewa. The UMP favored Tiwura aligning itself with ROSPO, although this platform become prominent only within the past decade. After democratization in 2003, the UMP would outdo the SCLR and become the sole opposition to the TDP leadership. From 2003 to 2009, the UMP served as the bastion of leftists within Tiwuran politics who rejected the big-tent TDP. This came to an end when many TDP members formed the National Unity Party, drawing voters from both the UMP and TDP and would eventually force the UMP into a status of a smaller third party as the NUP and TDP became the two major parties of Tiwura. Today, the UMP still enjoys massive support and is the third largest party by registered members. In the modern day the party still remains the most prominent pro-ROSPO party within Tiwura.