Partido de Convergência Democrática - Grupo de Reflexão
Partido de Convergência Democrática - Grupo de Reflexão (PCD) Democratic Convergence Party - Group of Reflection |
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Party leader | José Luiz Xavier Mendes |
Secretary General | Arzemiro de Jesus Ribeiro da Costa |
Emergence | MLSTP dissidents |
founding | 4 November 1990 |
Alignment | Social market economy |
Colours) | Green Blue |
Assembleia Nacional |
5/55 in an electoral alliance with MDFM and UDD |
Website | www.pcd.st |
The Partido de Convergência Democrática - Grupo de Reflexão (PCD) ( German Democratic Convergence Party - Group of Reflection ) is a party based on São Tomé and Príncipe . PCD won the first free elections in 1991 with an absolute majority and has since been represented in the Assembléia Nacional, the National Assembly of São Tomé and Príncipe .
founding
After the referendum in August 1990 introduced the multiparty system in São Tomé and Príncipe, dissidents and former party members founded the Movimento de Libertação de São on November 4, 1990 under the leadership of Leonel Mário d'Alva , the first Prime Minister of the free São Tomé and Príncipes Tomé e Príncipe (MLSTP) together with Independent Partido de Convergência Democrática - Grupo de Reflexão (PCD).
Chair of the PCD
Surname | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires | |
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Leonel Mário d'Alva | December 1990 | 1994 | |
Alda Bandeira | 1994 | 2001 | |
José Luiz Xavier Mendes | 2001 (?) | current |
Election results
year | Result | Seats | rank | government | |
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be right | % | ||||
1991 | 21,535 | 54.40 |
33/55 |
1 | Sole government |
1994 | 6.235 | 24.59 |
14/55 |
3 | opposition |
1998 | 4,667 | 16 |
8/55 |
3 | opposition |
2002 | 15,542 | 39.27 |
23/55 |
2 | Opposition (electoral alliance with MDFM-PL ) |
2006 | 19,640 | 37.70 |
23/55 |
1 | Opposition from 2008 grand coalition (electoral alliance with MDFM-PL ) |
2010 | 9,540 | 13.91 |
7/55 |
3 | opposition |
2014 | 7,342 | 10.95 |
5/55 |
3 | opposition |
2018 | 7,451 | 9.50 |
5/55 |
3 | (Electoral alliance with MDFM-PL and UDD ) |