B at the same time. For the 2014 elections only, the obligation for candidates to declare their community was lifted. If such candidates got elected (which was the case for 5 MPs from L'Alliance Lepep), instead of the actual division of the 62 seats over the communities, the historic average was used as basis for the best loser allocation. Main political parties The Labour Party is the oldest surviving political party on the island and remains one of the main parties on the political front. It was formed in 1936 by a group of people including Maurice Curé, Renganaden Seeneevasen, Mamode Hassenjee and Emmanuel Anquetil, Jean Prosper, Hassenjee Jeetoo, Barthelemy Ohsan, Samuel Barbe, Godefroy Moutia and Pandit Sahadeo. It was later led by Seewoosagur Ramgoolam from 1948. The Labour Party formed an alliance with the Comité d'Action Musulman (CAM) and the Independent Forward Bloc (IFB) to form the Independence Party alliance in 1967. This alliance negotiated the terms of the 1968 independence at the end of British colonial rule in the country. The Independence Party alliance won the elections of 1967. In 1969 Sookdeo Bissoondoyal's IFB left the government to join the Opposition which allowed Gaetan Duval's PMSD to join the ruling government. This Labour-CAM-PMSD coalition passed a Bill in Parliament to postpone the 1972 elections to 4 years later in 1976. Due to a struggling economy and worsening unemployment from 1971 and onwards the Labour Party suffered a first electoral defeat in 1976. However it managed to stay in power by forming another alliance with the PMSD. It finally suffered a major electoral defeat in 1982 and Seewoosagur Ramgoolam eventually resigned as Leader in the following year. From 1983 to 1991, Satcam Boolell was leader of the Labour Party which supported the MSM-led government from 1983 to 1988. Prior to the 1991 general elections Seewoosagur's son Navin Ramgoolam replaced Satcam Boolell as the party's leader in 1990. He restructured the Labour Party eventually won the 1995 elections after contracting an alliance with the MMM. After the party lost in 2000, it came back in 2005 and won again the elections of 2010. The Labour Party then suffered two consecutive defeats at both the 2014 and 2019 general elections. Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD) is the second oldest surviving main political party formed in 1955 by Jules Koenig. The party was considered a main political force up to 1982. In