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Twamaya was a political party in the Comoros.
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Twamaya was a political party in the Comoros.
Based in Anjouan, the party received 0.8% of the vote in the 1992 parliamentary elections. After the results in some constituencies were annulled, the party won a seat in the Assembly of the Union in the subsequent by-elections held in December. [1]
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