The Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement (, RGB-MB) is a

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Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

. Once the main opposition organisation in the country, it is today a minor party without parliamentary representation.

History

The party was established as the Bafatá Movement in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

on 27 July 1986 by Domingos Fernandes Gomes after his childhood friend Viriato Rodrigues Pa was executed along with five others accused of attempting to overthrow the regime of

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.Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p359 With the organisation gaining support from the large population of expatriate Guineans in Portugal, the

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government started attempts to assassinate the RGB leadership. In 1991 it adopted its current name. When multi-party politics was introduced in the early 1990s, the 1994 general elections saw the RGB become the largest opposition party to the PAIGC in the National People's Assembly, winning 19 of the 100 seats. Fernandes finished third in the presidential elections with 17% of the vote. In the 1999 general elections the RGB gained another 10 seats, becoming the opposition to the new ruling party, the

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. Salvador Tchongó was nominated as the party's candidate for president, but finished ninth in the field with just 2% of the vote. The party joined a coalition government, but pulled out in January 2001 after claiming it was not consulted about a cabinet reshuffle.Guinea-Bissau profile
BBC News Internal problems came to the fore when Zinha Vaz left the RGB to help establish the United Platform alliance in 2003.Mendy, p361 The party lost all its seats in the 2004 parliamentary elections, and did not contest elections in

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

. The party returned to active politics when it contested the 2014 parliamentary elections, but it received only 1.6% of the vote and failed to win a seat.

References

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