Cape Verdean parliamentary election, 2011

The parliamentary elections in Cape Verde in 2011 took place in the West African island nation of Cape Verde on February 6, 2011. The ruling Social Democratic Party since 2001 Partido Africano da Independencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV, German: "African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde " ), under the leadership of Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves received more than 50 percent of the votes cast. Their main opponent was as in all elections since the introduction of multiparty system in 1991, the Liberal Party Movimento para a Democracia (Cape Verde) (MPD, German: Movement for Democracy ), led by Carlos Veiga, the received time 40 percent of the vote. Both parties dominate the political process in Cape Verde since the transition to multi-party democracy in 1991 and have so far ruled the country every ten years. The third-placed União Democrática Caboverdiana Independente e 2006 could double its share of the vote compared to the parliamentary elections in Cape Verde, but was still at a less than five percent of the votes and two seats in the parliament. The remaining two being beaten for election parties were in meaningless area of less than one percent and have won no seats.

Due to power outage delayed the announcement of the official results, but confessed Veiga on 7 February 2011, the already obvious defeat of his party a. Observers saw in this confession before the announcement of the official results a sign of the strength of democracy in Cape Verde.

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