{{refimprove|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox political party | name = Change 2005 | colorcode = Red | foundation = December 2004 | ideology = Big tent<br>'''Factions'''<br>Communism<br>Socialism<br>Democratic socialism<br>Social democracy<br>Green politics<br>Sankarism<br>Progressivism<br>Ecologism | position = Centre-left to far-left | country = Burkina Faso }} {{Politics of Burkina Faso}} '''Change 2005''' ({{Langx|fr|Alternance 2005}}) was a political alliance in Burkina Faso (the former Upper Volta), founded to contest the presidential election in 2005.<ref>Francis Wiafe-Amoako, ''Africa 2016-2017'', p 76</ref> The incumbent, Blaise Compaore, was standing for a third term and was expected to win despite claims that another term in office would be unconstitutional.<ref name=BBC>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4427918.stm "Q&A: Burkina Faso votes "], ''BBC News'', 11 November 2005</ref> He was re-elected with 80.35% of the votes.<ref>{{Citation|last=Turner|first=Barry|title=Burkina Faso|date=2010|work=The Statesman’s Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World 2011|pages=241–244|editor-last=Turner|editor-first=Barry|series=The Statesman’s Yearbook|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-58635-6_135|isbn=978-1-349-58635-6}}</ref>

Alternance 2005 was founded in December 2004 by 16 leftist parties. The grouping had put forward three candidates for the first round of the election: Hermann Yaméogo, president of Union nationale pour la démocratie et le développement (UNDD - National Union for Democracy and Development), Benewendé Stanislas Sankara of Union pour la renaissance/Mouvement sankariste (UNIR/MS - Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Movement) and Philippe Ouédraogo of the Parti africain de l'indépendance (PAI). However, Ouédraogo, later stood as a candidate for his own party, Rassemblement des écologistes du Burkina (RDEB - Rally of the Ecologists of Burkina) which announced its "retirement" from Alternance 2005 and supported its own candidate.<ref>Oumarou Kologo, ''[http://www.memoireonline.com/06/08/1156/m_dons-phenomene-anthropologique-elections-burkina-faso5.html#fnref70 Les dons, phénomène anthropologique au coeur des élections au Burkina Faso: une analyse des comportements électoraux dans la ville de Ouagadougou]'', chapter 2, note 71. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

Sankara, an MP, was one of the most prominent opposition figures in the election though few expected him to make an impression.<ref name=BBC/> He received 4.88% of the vote.{{cn|date=January 2020}}

The parties forming the alliance were: *African Independence Party *Citizens’ League of Builders *Convergence for Social Democracy *Group of Patriotic Democrats *Movement for Democracy and Rebirth *National Union for Democracy and Development *Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party *Party for Democracy and Socialism *Party of the Independent Forces for Development *Patriotic Front for Change *Rally of the Ecologists of Burkina *Sankarist Democratic Front *Social Forces Front *Socialist Peasants Party *Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Movement *Union of Independent Democrats and Progressives

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