The Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union ( pt, União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática, UCID) is a

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History

The party had its roots in the Democratic Union of Cape Verde (''União Democrática de Cabo Verde'', UDCV), a group that emerged from the Juridicial Congress of Cape Verde on 23 February 1975.Richard A Lobban Jr & Paul Khalil Saucier (2007) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde'', Scarecrow Press, p228 However, the UDCV was excluded from negotiations on independence with the

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government. The Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union was formally established in

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, Portugal in 1981 by a group of centre-right Cape Verdean exiles.Lobban & Saucier, p229 When multi-party politics was introduced at the start of the 1990s, the party did not contest the 1991 parliamentary elections after failing to file its application papers in time.Lobban & Saucier, p230 In internal elections in 1993, Celso Celestino was elected as the party's new leader. In the 1995 parliamentary elections the party received just 2,369 votes (1.5%), failing to win a seat. It supported incumbent President

António Mascarenhas Monteiro António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro (; 16 February 1944 – 16 September 2016) was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001. Early life and education Born in Ribeira da Barca in 1944 ...

of the Movement for Democracy in the 1996 presidential elections, with Monteiro winning unopposed. In the buildup to the January 2001 parliamentary elections the party joined the

Democratic Alliance for Change The Democratic Alliance for Change (, ADM) was a political alliance in Cape Verde in the early 2000s. History The ADM was established in the buildup to the January 2001 parliamentary elections as an alliance of the Democratic and Independent Cape ...

(ADM), a coalition including the Democratic Convergence Party and the

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. The alliance received 6% of the vote, winning two seats in the

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. In the

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a month later, ADM candidate

Jorge Carlos Fonseca Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca (; born 20 October 1950)
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finished third of the four candidates with 3% of the vote. The UCID contested the 2006 parliamentary elections alone, winning two seats with 2.6% of the vote. It did not nominate a candidate for the

later in the year. It retained both seats in the 2011 parliamentary elections, increasing its vote share to 4.4%. It did not nominate a candidate for the 2011 presidential elections. After the 2016 parliamentary election, UCID has three seats, one additional.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

National Assembly elections

References

External links

Official website
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