When did Guinea-Bissau become a multiparty state?

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Guinea-Bissau became a multiparty state in 1991. Prior to this transition, the country had functioned as a single-party state under the leadership of the PAIGC since its independence. Following the shift to a democratic, multiparty system in the early 1990s, the country held its first free legislative and presidential elections in 1994.12