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- 1 2 Bute, Evangeline; Harmer, H. J. P. (6 October 2016). The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics of Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-9287-0.
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, pp79–82 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
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