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Re the desire to show alliances, this can be done in the legislative election infobox while also not losing the list of parties – see, for example, 2009 Albanian parliamentary election. Cheers, Number 5 7 16:25, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The problem here in question is showing the parties; they're basically irrelevant for the Mauritanian political system due to its tribalist element. Here a prominent figure of the ruling coalition said that all parties of the presidential majority adhere to the same programme and thus it doesn't matter to which party one votes (with the main reason to vote one for the smaller parties being tribalism or family ties). Thus I think it's only appropriate to show the ruling coalition together, with the example you provided being not as appropriate in my opinion and knowing how Mauritanian politics are seen and treated locally, thus me trying to avoid a misleading vision by foreign readers who might think that those junior parties are independent enough/have a relevant weight and power inside of the presidential coalition. Tidjani Saleh (talk) 16:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If the parties run separately in the election, they should be shown separately. If they all run as the "Presidential majority" alliance, then it makes sense to show that as a single party. Number 5 7 21:16, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's more complicated than that. There are varying alliances in the several departamental constituencies (which make the majority of seats) so for simplicity's sake the infobox shouldn't have stuff like Tewassoul repeated 10 times because of varying coalitions. That's what the results section is for.

Mauritanian media usually reports it as "ruling party", "presidential majority" and the rest of opposition parties. Tidjani Saleh (talk) 16:47, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]