The Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union ( pt, União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática, UCID) is a
conservative political party in
Cape Verde
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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
Portuguese government.
The Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union was formally established in
Lisbon
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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 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 (ADM), a coalition including the
Democratic Convergence Party and the
Labour and Solidarity Party. The alliance received 6% of the vote, winning two seats in the
National Assembly.
[ In the ]presidential elections
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a month later, ADM candidate Jorge Carlos Fonseca 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 presidential elections
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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
{{Cape Verdean political parties
Political parties in Cape Verde
Political parties established in 1981
1981 establishments in Portugal