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When did Cabo Verde change from a one-party state to multiparty elections?

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Cabo Verde transitioned from a one-party state to a multiparty system in 1991.12

Following years of rule by the African Party for the Independence of Cabo Verde (PAICV), the government permitted dissidents to organize a second party, the Movement for Democracy (MpD), beginning in March 1990. This political opening culminated in the country's first multiparty legislative elections in January 1991, which the MpD won.12