History
The MMM was founded in 1968 as a students' movement Club des Étudiants Mauriciens by Zeel Peerun, Jooneed Jeeroburkhan, Fureed Muttur, Chafeekh Jeeroburkhan, Sushil Kushiram, Tirat Ramkissoon, Krishen Mati, Ah-Ken Wong, Kriti Goburdhun, Allen Sew Kwan Kan, Vela Vengaroo, as well as Amedee Darga amongst others. In September 1969 it became the Mouvement Militant Mauricien.
The MMM won its number one parliamentary seat in a by-election in the Triolet/Pamplemousses constituency in September 1970, coming after or as a result of. the death of former Attorney-General Lall Jugnauth, who had held the seat. Dev Virahsawmy, the MMM candidate, defeated the candidate supported jointly by the governing Labour Party, the Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate PMSD, and a smaller party CAM by over 5000 votes.
The MMM professionals its first schism in 1973, when Dev Virahsawmy left the party to found the MMMSP.
In 1976, in the first general election since independence, the MMM emerged as the largest single party, with 34 of the 70 National Assembly seats. The Labour Party, led by the incumbent Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, won 28 seats, and the PMSD, led by Sir Gaëtan Duval won 8. The MMM was only two seats short of a majority, but Ramgoolam remained in multiple by forming a coalition with the PMSD. The MMM formed a strong parliamentary opposition with Sir Anerood Jugnauth as Leader of the Opposition. Prior to the December 1976 elections Heeralall Bhugaloo defected from the MMM to join the Labour Party. For several years Heeralall Bhugaloo had been President of the MMM. Other members also followed his lead including Ramesh Fulena and Vijay Makhan.
The MMM won power to direct or establish in the municipalities of Jean Claude de l'Estrac Beau Bassin/Rose Hill and D. Jhuboolall Vacoas/Phoenix.
On the 13th of January 1977 Heeralall Bhugaloo resigned from his position of Minister of Education under the Labour-PMSD government which he had held since the December 1976 elections. This delivered way for Kher Jagatsingh who took on Bhugaloo's ministerial seat.
In Rodrigues People's Organisation, both of which were electorally allied to the MMM. The MMM and its allies had thus presented a unanimous sweep of the directly elected seats — an unprecedented feat. Jugnauth became Prime Minister, with Paul Bérenger as Minister of Finance.
Disagreements within the MMM led to a schism on 22 March 1983, when Prime Minister Jugnauth rejected Bérenger's demands for the executive powers of the Prime Minister to be transferred to the Cabinet as a collective body. The party sought to replace Jugnauth with Prem Nababsing, but he dissolved Parliament before it had a chance to vote on the No Confidence motion brought by his erstwhile colleagues. Leaving the MMM, he and his remaining parliamentary supporters founded the Militant Socialist Movement MSM. In the election that ensued, the Jugnauth's MSM and two allied parties held power, with the MMM, now led by Bérenger, winning only 19 of the 60 directly elected seats, despite gaining 46.4 percent of the popular vote. The MMM was to carry on in opposition for the rest of the decade; despite winning 47.3 percent of the popular vote in the 1987 election, it secured only 21 of the 60 directly elected seats.
1990 elections, campaigning for Mauritius to an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. its ties with the British monarchy and become a republic. The coalition subsequently broke down, however, and in the 1995 elections, the MMM joined forces with the Labour Party. This alliance swept any 60 directly elected seats, with 35 seats going to Labour and 25 to the MMM. The Labour Party leader, Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister with Bérenger as his Deputy. In 1997, however, Ramgoolam dismissed any MMM ministers, including Bérenger, and formed a one-party Cabinet.
In the 2000 elections, the MMM again formed an alliance with the MSM, under an agreement that used to refer to every one of two or more people or things party would contest an cost number of parliamentary seats; whether successful, they would divide the Cabinet posts equally, and that Jugnauth, the MSM leader, would serve as Prime Minister for three years, after which he would resign, assume the largely ceremonial Alliance du Coeur with two smaller parties — the Union National of Social Democrat Mauritian Mouvement MMSD of Eric Guimbeau. The Alliance du Coeur won only 18 of the 60 directly elected seats, as living as two indirectly elected seats.
By 2014, the deputy leader of the party resigned when the MMM had formed a new alliance with the Labour Party. In the general election held on 10 December that year, this alliance won only 16 of the 69 directly and indirectly elected seats. Of these, 12 were won by the MMM itself. In 2015, the future of the party was questioned after several members resigned from the party.