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The Movement for the Comoros (French : Mouvement pour les Comores, MPC) was a political party in the Comoros.
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The Movement for the Comoros (French : Mouvement pour les Comores, MPC) was a political party in the Comoros.
The party was established in 1997 by Saïd Hilali. [1] It nominated its secretary-general Ibrahim Halidi as its candidate for the 2006 presidential elections. In the nationwide second round of voting, Halidi came second with 28% of the vote.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Comoros on 19 January 2020; in constituencies where no candidate received a majority, a second round was held alongside local elections on 23 February. The elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties, including the two largest parties in the outgoing Assembly, the Union for the Development of the Comoros and Juwa Party, in protest at constitutional reform and political repression, The result was a landslide victory for President Azali Assoumani's Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros, which won 20 of the 24 elected seats.
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