The Christian Democratic Union was a

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Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

led by

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History

It was formed in 1982 through a merger of the

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and the Democratic People's Party. The party joined the

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. A section of the Liberal Party reconstituted its party under the leadership of Barney Barnes, and stayed out of the alliance. In 1988, the CDU broke with the alliance. In March 1989, the CDU merged into

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