African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde
Abbreviation	PAIGC
Leader	Domingos Simões Pereira
Founder	Henri Labéry Amílcar Cabral
Founded	19 September 1956 (1956-09-19)
Headquarters	Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Youth wing	African Youth Amílcar Cabral
Women's wing	União Democrática das Mulheres da Guiné (UDEMU)
Ideology	Democratic socialism Social democracy Left-wing nationalism African nationalism Pan-Africanism Historical: Communism Marxism–Leninism[1]
National affiliation	Inclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka
International affiliation	World Anti-Imperialist Platform[2] Socialist International (consultative)[3]
Colors	Red, green and yellow
Slogan	Unidade e Luta ("Unity and Struggle")
Seats in the National People's Assembly	47 / 102
Party flag
Website
www.paigc.gw
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The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. Originally formed to peacefully campaign for independence from Portugal, the party turned to armed conflict in the 1960s and was one of the belligerents in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. Towards the end of the war, the party established a socialist one-party state, which remained intact until multi-party democracy was introduced in the early 1990s. Although the party won the first multi-party elections in 1994, it was removed from power in the 1999–2000 elections. However, it returned to office after winning parliamentary elections in 2004 and presidential elections in 2005, since which it has remained the largest party in the National People's Assembly.

The PAIGC also governed Cape Verde, from its independence in 1975 to 1980. After the 1980 coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau, the Cape Verdean branch of the PAIGC was converted into a separate party, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde.