The Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement (french: Mouvement de décolonisation et d'émancipation sociale, MDES) is a pro-independence

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...

Platform

The principal platform of the party is the demand for independence of Guiana, currently an overseas region and one of the 26

regions of France France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (french: régions, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas colle ...

. They also consider the possibility of becoming an

overseas territory A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an ...

, which is different from an overseas region.

Election participation

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, the MDES obtained 3 seats in the regional elections with 8.6% of the vote. However, in the 2004 regional elections, the MDES list put forward by Maurice Pindard obtained only 6.55% of the vote and no seats. In 2012 parliamentary elections, the MDES obtained 17.30% of votes.

Alain Tien-Liong Alain Tien-Liong (born 21 May 1963) is a French Guianese politician and educator. Biography Tien-Liong was born on 21 May 1963 in Cayenne Tien-Liong was raised in Cayenne's ''village chinois''. Political career Councillor of the Canton of ...

, who represented the Cayenne South-West constituency in the body, served as president of the

General Council of French Guiana The General Council of French Guiana (French: ''Conseil général de la Guyane'') was the deliberative executive assembly of the French Department of French Guiana. (French Guiana was also a French region, with a Regional Council Regional Counci ...

from 2004 to 2015. In the

2022 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in A ...

, MDES candidate

Jean-Victor Castor Jean-Victor Castor (born 21 April 1962) is a French politician who was elected to represent French Guiana's 1st constituency in the 2022 legislative election. He is a member of the Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement (MDES), a pro ...

was elected to represent

French Guiana's 1st constituency The 1st constituency of French Guiana is one of two French National Assembly constituencies in the French Guiana ''département''. Located in the eastern third of the department, the constituency contains the capital city of Cayenne. The consti ...

in the

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''Rot Kozé''

The party runs a newspaper ''Rot Kozé'' (a

French Guianese Creole French Guianese Creole (Kriyòl; also called variously Guianan Creole, Guianese Creole in English and Créole guyanais or Guyanais in French) is a French-based creole language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree, in Suriname and Gu ...

term that means "Other speech"; '), which advocates for autonomy for French Guiana.

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1991 establishments in French Guiana Nationalist parties in France Nationalist parties in South America Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in French Guiana Separatism in France Socialism in French Guiana Socialist parties in France {{France-party-stub