African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
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The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a social-democratic political party in Cape Verde. It came to power as a sole ruling party after independence and ruled the country under the name African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. The party was formed with the intent of unifying Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, which fought their revolutionary wars against António Salazar's Portugal simultaneously. It took the present name in 1980 following a coup in Guinea-Bissau that ousted the Cape Verdean independence hero Amílcar Cabral's brother, Luís Cabral.
The PAICV was defeated in 1991 in the first multi-party elections by the Movement for Democracy (MpD).
The PAICV, which advertises itself as an Africa-oriented political party in contrast to the somewhat neoliberal MpD, enjoys its greatest support in the municipalities most comparable to those on the African mainland: the dense urban areas such as Praia, and rural agricultural areas such as Santa Cruz and São Filipe.
In presidential elections held on 11 and 25 February 2001, Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, who won 46.52% of the vote in the first round, narrowly defeated the MpD's Carlos Veiga by a margin of only 12 votes in the run-off.
In the last legislative election, held on 22 January 2006, the party won 52.28% of the popular vote and 41 out of 72 seats in the National Assembly.
In the latest presidential election held on 12 February 2006, Pedro Pires again defeated Carlos Veiga, winning 50.98% of the vote.
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