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- ↑ "How Universal Adult Suffrage (1959) set Mauritius on a political convulsion". Le Mauricien. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
- ↑ Napal, D. "Prototypes of Labour Party and Parti Mauricien". Mauritius Times. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ↑ "1965: l'entrée en scène de SGD". L'Express. Retrieved 2005-05-10.
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