Malagasy Revolutionary Party

Malagasy Revolutionary Party
Antoko Revolisionera Malagasy
AbbreviationAREMA
National SecretaryAnnick Zoary Ratsiraka
FounderDidier Ratsiraka
Founded19 March 1976
(49 years, 362 days)
HeadquartersAntananarivo
Membership (1995)455,000
Ideology
Political position
National Assembly
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Website
www.parti-arema.com

The Malagasy Revolutionary Party, better known by its Malagasy acronym AREMA (from Antoko Revolisionera Malagasy), is a political party in Madagascar. It was the ruling party of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, a one-party socialist state, from 1976 to 1992, when it was known as the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution (French: Avant-garde de la Révolution Malgache; Malagasy: Antokin'ny Revolisiona Malagasy, lit.'Guarantor of the Malagasy Revolution'). The party has gone through three name changes since, although it has never changed its acronym AREMA.