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The National Union for Democracy and Progress (Portuguese : União Nacional para a Democracia e o Progresso, UNDP) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau.
Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole. Reintegrationists maintain that Galician is not a separate language, but a dialect of Portuguese. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as "Lusophone" (Lusófono).
A political party is an organized group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed policies and programmes, with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters' interests.
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 1,815,698.
The party was established on 5 December 1997 by Abubácar Baldé. [1] In the 1999 general elections Baldé finished sixth in the presidential elections with 5% of the vote, whilst the party won a single seat in the National People's Assembly with just under 1% of the vote.
The unicameral National People's Assembly is Guinea-Bissau's legislative body.
Despite a slight increase of its vote share to 1.2% in the 2004 parliamentary elections, the party lost its only seat in the Assembly. Baldé pulled out of the 2005 presidential elections two weeks before election day, claiming the election was "infected with vices" that undermined the "political and juridical guarantees of liberty, transparency and justice." [1]
The party failed to win a seat in the 2008 parliamentary elections, receiving just 0.3% of the vote. It did not contest the 2009 or 2012 presidential elections, but supported the 2012 military coup. [1]
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