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Alliance for Progressives

Alliance for Progressives
Leader	Ndaba Gaolathe
Founded	28 October 2017
Split from	Botswana Movement for Democracy
Ideology	Social liberalism Civic nationalism[1]
Political position	Centre[2]
National affiliation	Umbrella for Democratic Change
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The Alliance for Progressives is a social-liberal political party in Botswana.

In July 2017, the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) president Ndaba Gaolathe and five other members of the party's executive were expelled from the party.^[3] As a result, Gaolathe set up a new leadership committee, which was later transformed into a breakaway party, the Alliance for Progressives. The new party was formally established on 28 October 2017 with Gaolathe as leader and Wynter Mmolotsi as deputy president.^[4] Six sitting MPs joined the party, although Haskins Nkaigwa later returned to the UDC,^[5] leaving it with five seats going into the 2019 general elections.^[6]

The elections saw the party receive 5.12% of the vote, finishing third behind the Botswana Democratic Party and the Umbrella for Democratic Change in terms of popular vote share. However, it only retained a single seat, with Mmolotsi winning in the Francistown South constituency.