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- 1 2 3 "A História de um Estadista" (in Portuguese). August 8, 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 113.
- ↑ "Cape Verde at the African Elections Database".
