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Parmehutu (French: Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu; English: "Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement"), also known as MDR-Parmehutu (Mouvement démocratique republicain Parmehutu; French: "Parmehutu Democratic Republican Movement") is a now-defunct political party of Rwanda and Burundi.
It was founded by Grégoire Kayibanda as a political party of moderate Hutu nationalists who fought for the emancipation of the oppressed Hutu majority. Kayibanda overthrew the Tutsi monarchy of Mwami Kigeri V in 1961 and appointed a government of Hutus.
After independence, in July 1962, Kayibanda became president of Rwanda. In the general elections of October 1963, Parmehutu won all the seats in the parliament.[citation needed]
In the coup of July 1973, Kayibanda was ousted by his cousin Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Parmehutu party was dissolved.
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