The Monitor Action Group is a political party

Political party

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 in Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. The party is based among conservative White Namibians, with most of the top leadership having served in the government of apartheid South West Africa

South West Africa

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. In June 2009, the party contended that aspects of the affirmative action

Affirmative action

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 policy of Namibia violated the country's constitution

Constitution of Namibia

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.

2004

At the last elections

Namibian parliamentary election, 2004

General elections were held in Namibia on 15 and 16 November 2004 to elect the President and National Assembly. The National Assembly election resulted in a landslide win for SWAPO, which won 55 of the 78 seats with over 75% of the vote. SWAPO's candidate for president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, won the...

, 15 and 16 November 2004, the party won 0.8% of popular votes and 1 out of 72 seats. The party was run by Kosie Pretorius

Kosie Pretorius

Jacobus Willem Francois Pretorius, commonly known as Kosie Pretorius , is a Namibian politician. He is the Chairman of the Monitor Action Group party, which mainly represents conservative white Namibians, and was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 1990 to 2005.-Early life and...

, though Jurie Viljoen

Jurie Viljoen

Johannes Jurie Viljoen is a Namibian politician. Viljoen was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia from 2005-2010...

 was the party's representative in the National Assembly.

2009

In the 2009 election, the party chose not to run a candidate for President, but competed for seats in the National Assembly of Namibia

National Assembly of Namibia

The National Assembly of Namibia is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It has a total of 78 members. 72 members are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Six additional members are appointed by the President.The...

. However, the party received only 4,718 votes, just below the minimum for a seat in the National Assembly. Ahead of the election, the top four party leaders were Kosie Pretorius, Jurie Viljoen, Gernot Wilfrid Schaaf and Eric Peters.