List of political parties in Cape Verde

This list includes the political parties in Cape Verde .

After independence from Portugal in 1975 and the subsequent one-party system of the PAIGC (since 1980/81 PAICV ), a multi-party system was only introduced on the Cape Verde Islands for the 1991 parliamentary election .

List of Cape Verdean political parties

• Partido Africano da Independencia de Cabo Verde ( African Party of Cape Verdean Independence , PAICV) social democratic (until 1990 socialist), founded in 1959
• Movimento para a Democracia ( Movement for Democracy , MpD) liberal, founded in 1990
• União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática ( Independent and Democratic Union Cape Verdean , UCID) Christian Democratic, founded in 1977, only noticeably rooted in São Vicente , but strongly represented in Cape Verdean communities abroad
• Partido do Trabalho e da Solidariedade ( Party of Labor and Solidarity , PTS), founded in the late 1990s
• Partido da Renovação Democrática ( Party of Democratic Renewal , PRD), founded in 2000 by splitting off from the MpD
• Partido da Convergência Democrática ( Party of Democratic Convergence , PCD), founded in 1994 by splitting off from the MpD
• Partido Social Democrático ( Social Democratic Party , PSD)
• Partido Democrata Cristão ( Christian Democratic Party , PDC)

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• Portrait of the Cape Verdean political landscape , article on www.gateway-caboverde.org of September 21, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2015 (port.)
• Government website on the political landscape with a PDF download (9 MB) of a dissertation on this, accessed on May 8, 2015 (port.)

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