People's Party (Seychelles)
| Parti Lepep People's Party |
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|---|---|
| Party leader | James Michel |
| Emergence | Unity Party of the Seychelles People (1964) Progress Front of the Seychelles People 's Party (since 2009) |
| founding | 1964 (as the unity party of the Seychellois people ) |
| newspaper | Lepep ("the people") |
| Alignment | Social democracy |
| Colours) | red |
| National Assembly |
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| Website | www.partilepep.com |
The People's Party ( Seselwa : Parti Lepep , PL ) is a socialist political party in the Seychelles and was the country's unity party from 1979 to 1991 .
She published a newspaper called Lepep . The party was formerly known as the Progressive Front of the people of Seychelles ( English Seychelles People's Progressive Front , French front progressiste du Peuple Seychellois ) until June of 2009.
The People's Party was founded in 1964 by France-Albert René , under the name Unity Party of the Seychelles People ( English Seychelles People's United Party founded) and was out of it since its inception. The People's Party became the ruling party in 1977 and was the only admitted party from 1979. From that time on, the period until 1991 was retrospectively referred to as the Second Republic . The People's Party is led by an Executive Central Committee.
Leading members of the party over the years have included René, James Michel , Guy Sinon , Jacques Hodoul (former foreign minister and chief ideologist of the party), Joseph Belmont (former vice president of Seychelles) and Maxime Ferrari (former René loyalist who later supported the opposition and wrote an autobiography).
In the era of one-party rule , the party received grants from foreign governments, especially from Tanzania , Algeria , Libya and the German Democratic Republic .
The party has sections in each electoral district and uses an expanded system of patronage . In the parliamentary elections in Seychelles on May 12, 2007, the party received 65.76% of the vote and 23 of the 34 seats in the National Assembly . The PL lost its majority in the 2016 elections.
Web links
- Progress front of the Seychelles people ( Memento of October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )