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List of political parties in Cape Verde

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This article lists political parties in Cape Verde. Cape Verde has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties (PAICV and MpD), with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

List of parties

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Parties represented in the National Assembly

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Party Abbr. Leader Political position Ideology Assembly
Movement for Democracy
Movimento para a Democracia
MpD Ulisses Correia e Silva Centre to centre-right Liberalism
Christian democracy
38 / 72
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde
PAICV Janira Hopffer Almada Centre-left to left-wing Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Left-wing nationalism
30 / 72
Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union
União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática
UCID António Monteiro Centre-right to right-wing Conservatism
Christian democracy
4 / 72

Other parties

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Defunct alliance

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See also

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References

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