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Nova Sintrarava Cape Verde Nova Sintrarava Cape Verde
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Cape Verdeaio Beach Cape Verdeaio Beach
Maio Cape Verde Fischer Maio Cape Verde Fischer
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Steep Coast Fogo Cape Verde Steep Coast Fogo Cape Verde
Sao Filipe Fogo Sao Filipe Fogo
Sao Filipe Fogo Cape Verde Sao Filipe Fogo Cape Verde
Pico Fogo Cape Verde 1 Pico Fogo Cape Verde
Lavab Beach Island Fogo 2 Lavab Beach Island Fogo 2
Fogo Caldeira Fogo Caldeira
Coast Fogo Cape Verde Islands Coast Fogo Cape Verde Islands
Fogo Funku Pico Fogo Funku Pico
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Sport Fishing Sao Vicente Cape Verde Sport Fishing Sao Vicente Cape Verde
Sao Vicente Sao Pedro Sao Vicente Sao Pedro
Baia Das Gatas 3 Baia Das Gatas 3
Norteaia 2 Norteaia 2
B Beach Tarrafal Island Santiago B Beach Tarrafal Island Santiago
Serraalagueta Santiago Cape Verde Serraalagueta Santiago Cape Verde2
Praia Santiago Cape Verde Islands Praia Santiago Cape Verde Islands
Island Boavista Chaves Beach Island Boavista Chaves Beach
Chaves Beach Island Boa Vista Chaves Beach Island Boa Vista
Dunes Cape Verde Islandsoavista 1 Dunes Cape Verde Islandsoavista
Islandoavista Desert Oase 2 Islandoavista Desert Oase 2
Dunesoa Vista Cape Verde Sonnenuntergang 2 Dunesoa Vista Cape Verde Sonnenuntergang 2
Wreckoa Vista Wreckoa Vista
B Beachoa Vista Cape Verde Islands B Beachoa Vista Cape Verde Islands
B Beach Djeu Cape Verde 2 B Beach Djeu Cape Verde 2
B Beach Onoa Vista 2 B Beach Onoa Vista 2
B Beach Palmsoa Vista B Beach Palmsoa Vista
Saluracona Cape Verde 2 Saluracona Cape Verde 2
Cape Verde Windsurfer 2 Cape Verde Windsurfer 2
Cape Verde Surfer 2 Cape Verde Surfer 2
Cape Verde Sal Santaria Beachoot 2 Cape Verde Sal Santaria Beachoot 2
Cape Verde Sal Espargos 2 Cape Verde Sal Espargos 2
Salines Sal Cape Verde Salines Sal Cape Verde
Salines Cape Verde Salines Cape Verde
Sal Beach Areal View Sal Beach Areal View
Areal View Santaaria Sal Areal View Santaaria Salobile
Buracona Sal Cape Verde Buracona Sal Cape Verde
B Beach Santaaria Island Sal B Beach Santaaria Sal Island 1
Street Santaaria Cape Verde Street Santaaria Cape Verde
Santaaria Sal Beach 2 Santaaria Sal Beach 2
Insal Sal Santaaria Hotels Beach Island Sal Santaaria Hotels Beach2
Tamarinde Cape Verde Tamarinde Cape Verde
B Beach Welle Cape Verde B Beach Welle Cape Verde
Sonnenuntergang Cape Verde Islands Sonnenuntergang Cape Verde Islands
Sonnenuntergang Cape Verde 2 Sonnenuntergang Cape Verde 2
Cape Verde Yacht Cape Verde Yacht
Cape Verde Beach Cape Verde Beach
Cape Verde Beach Schirme Cape Verde Beach Schirme
Cape Verde Steinformationen Cape Verde Steinformationen
Gesteinsformationen Cape Verde Gesteinsformationen Cape Verde
Fischerboote Cape Verde 2 Fischerboote Cape Verde 2
Duenen Sand Cape Verde Duenen Sand Cape Verde
Abendstimmung Beach Cape Verde Islands Abendstimmung Beach Cape Verde Islands
Arial View Santaaria Sal Arial View Santaaria Salobile
Monte Cara2 Monte Cara2

Politics

Structure of the state, the republic, the constitution, and the parties

Constitution

The constitution consists of civic rights and duties, e.g.:

* Freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly
* Right to medical care and an education
* The death penalty and life prison terms have been abolished
* The seat of the government and the National Assembly is the capital of the Republic of Cape Verde: Praia.

Politics Cape Verde Islands
Cape Verde‘s flag

Already accepted into the UNO in 1975, the year of its declaration of independence, Cape Verde has become a stable country under the Pereira administration. Despite the state’s one-party system, it has not developed a totalitarian rule. To the contrary: At least during the early years, the PAICV appeared to have understood how to equally address the interests of a variety of citizens. Above all, the party has supported social equality, education, food security and functioning health care. Nevertheless, intellectuals and church groups demanded the introduction of a multi-party system at the end of the 1980s. The National Assembly responded to this demand with a corresponding change of the constitution in 1990. This was directly followed by the founding of the MDP democratic party. In addition, the Cape Verdean Independent Democratic Union (UCID), which had been only active outside of the country up to that point, established itself in Cape Verde.

Political parties

Cape Verde Communist Party
PAICV – The Communist Party of Cape Verde
  • PAICV Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, was established in 1981; had been called PAIGC since 1956
  • MPD Movimiento para a Democracia, founded in 1990
  • PCD Partido da Convergênzia Democrática, founded in 1994 after splitting off from the MDP
  • UCID União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática, founded in 1975 in American and Portuguese exile
  • PSD Partido Socialista Democrático, founded in 1992
  • PTS Partidodo Trabalhoe da Solidariedade, founded in 1998
Cape Verde Right Liberal Demokratische Party
MPD – Rightist liberal democratic party of Cape Verde

The MDP was ultimately able to win 78% of the votes in the following elections of 1991. President Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro served as its candidate and its platform was to provide for better economic conditions through liberalization of fishing, tourism, and other markets of the service sector. The achievements of the MDP that are now generally acknowledged to include decentralisation of the administration through the creation of 16 counties. In 1993, the party split and the PCD, which formed a type of opposition to the re-elected MDP from that time on, was created under Eurico Monteiro and Jorge Carlos Fonseca. At the elections for the National Assembly in January 2001, the PAICV was once again victorious with the President Pedro Pires, who represented social-democratic issues. José Maria Neves heads the government with 12 department ministers and four secretaries of state. At the most recent elections in January 2006, the PAICV was confirmed as the government party with Pires as the president with an absolute majority.

State organs

  • National Assembly

Decision-making organ for all domestic and foreign-policy matters; its representatives are elected by the people (voting rights start at age 18) in a free and equal election every 5 years

  • President

Representative of the Republic for domestic and foreign-policy matters; elected directly by the people in free and equal elections every 5 years

  • Prime Minister

Head of the government and executive who is nominated by the National Assembly and appointed by the president

  • Justice Department

Independent jurisdiction, structured as the supreme court, the government accounting office, the military court, the finance court and the family and labour court

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