Years in So Tom and Prncipe - 1975 in So Tom and Prncipe, 1991 in So Tom and Prncipe, 1996 in So Tom and Prncipe (Paperback)

Chapters: 1975 in So Tom and Prncipe, 1991 in So Tom and Prncipe, 1996 in So Tom and Prncipe, 1998 in So Tom and Prncipe, 2010 in So Tom and Prncipe, So Tom and Prncipe Legislative Election, 1998, So Tom and Prncipe Legislative Election, 1991, So Tom and Prncipe Presidential Election, 1996, So Tom and Prncipe at the 1996 Summer Olympics, United Nations Security Council Resolution 373, So Tom and Prncipe Legislative Election, 2010. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is part of the series:Politics and government ofSo Tom and Prncipe On 8 November 1998, So Tom and Prncipe held its third National Assembly election since the introduction of multi-party politics in 1990. Voter Turnout was 64.7%. The 1998 National Assembly elections were originally scheduled for late September/early October as impressive progress on voter registration was made. On 1 September, however, President of the Republic Miguel Trovoada issued a decree setting the polling date at 8 November. Nine political parties competed for the 55 seats at stake. These included the three represented in the outgoing legislature: the Movement for the Liberation of So Tom and Prncipe (MLSTP-PSD), the Democratic Convergence Party (PCD) and the Independent Democratic Action (ADI). Since the previous elections in 1994, the first two groups had governed in a coalition, led since November 1996 by Prime Minister Raul Bragana Neto. ADI, for its part, supported the policies of President Trovoada. The election campaign lasted from 22 October to 6 November. Issues debated centered on the exploitation of offshore oil reserves and the countrys entry into the monetary franc zone. Mr. Bragana (MLSTP) stated that his party had improved economic conditions and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=909230