Constitution of Cape Verde

{{Main article|History of Cape Verde}}

Cape Verde is a country that consists of a group of islands off the western coast of Senegal.{{cite web |title=Cabo Verde |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cabo-verde/ |website=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=6 August 2024 |language=en |date=30 July 2024 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114115644/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cabo-verde/ |url-status=live }} The Portuguese arrived in Cape Verde in 1462, and the islands became a part of the Portuguese Empire in 1495. After many Caboverdeans fought in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence from 1963 to 1974, both Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde were eventually granted independence. After Cape Verde's independence on 5 July 1975, the organization responsible for the movement, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC),{{cite journal |last1=Chabal |first1=Patrick |author1-link=Patrick Chabal |title=National Liberation in Portuguese Guinea, 1956-1974 |journal=African Affairs |date=1981 |volume=80 |issue=318 |pages=75–99 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/721431 |access-date=6 August 2024 |publisher=The Royal African Society |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097302 |jstor=721431 |issn=0001-9909 |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030155350/https://www.jstor.org/stable/721431 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }} initially worked for the unification of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. However, after the 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, the two countries separated, and the PAIGC became the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).{{cite web |url=http://www.ipri.pt/artigos/artigo.php?ida=104 |title=Widening trajectories: Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde since independence |first=Norrie |last=MacQueen |work=Relações Internacionais |date=February 1, 2006 |access-date=6 August 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423212017/http://www.ipri.pt/artigos/artigo.php?ida=104 |archive-date=23 April 2015}} In 1980, the first version of the constitution was written and adopted, and in 1981 it was amended to include Article 4, which established the PAICV as the only legal political party, forming a one-party state.

Originally intended to be a socialist state with a planned economy, the PAICV remained in power until the constitution was amended in 1990, when Article 4 was repealed from the constitution. Subsequently, in the 1991 Cape Verdean parliamentary election, Movement for Democracy (MpD) won approximately 70% of the seats in the National Assembly.{{cite journal |last1=Bogdan |first1=Michael |title=The Law of the Republic of Cape Verde after 25 Years of Independence |journal=Journal of African Law |date=2000 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=86–95 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1587440 |access-date=6 August 2024 |publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies |doi=10.1017/S0021855300012067 |jstor=1587440 |issn=0021-8553 |archive-date=6 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806163216/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1587440 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}

Another amendment to the constitution was adopted on 4 September 1992 and went into effect on 25 September 1992. Modeled after the Constitution of Portugal, the new amendment entrenched the ideas of political pluralism and a balance of powers in government,{{cite web |last1=Widner |first1=Jennifer |title=Cape Verde 1992 |url=https://pcwcr.princeton.edu/reports/capeverde1992.html |website=Constitution Writing & Conflict Resolution |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=6 August 2024 |archive-date=4 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204071720/https://pcwcr.princeton.edu/reports/capeverde1992.html |url-status=live }} creating a multi-party system.{{cite web |title=Cape Verde country profile |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13148486 |website=BBC News |access-date=6 August 2024 |date=11 September 2023 |archive-date=1 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701131142/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13148486 |url-status=live }} This was further expanded upon by an amendment in 1999, which specifically defined the nation as "a sovereign, unitary and democratic republic, which guarantees respect for human dignity and recognises the inviolability and inalienability of human rights as the foundation of the entire human community, of peace and of justice".{{cite constitution |article=1 |polity=Cape Verde |date=1999 }} The constitution was last amended in 2010.

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• {{cite web |title=Constituição |url=https://www.governo.cv/governo/constituicao/ |website=Governo de Cabo Verde |language=pt-br}}

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