Democratic Convergence Party (Cape Verde)
Template:Short description The Democratic Convergence Party (Template:Langx, PCD) was a political party in Cape Verde.
HistoryEdit
The PCD was formed in 1994, following a split in the Movement for Democracy.<ref name=PP>Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 113.</ref> In the 1995 parliamentary elections the party received 6.7% of the vote, winning a single seat in the 72-seat National Assembly.<ref name=PP/>
In the buildup to the January 2001 parliamentary elections the party joined the Democratic Alliance for Change (ADM), a coalition including the Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union (UCID) and the Labour and Solidarity Party (PTS). The alliance received 6% of the vote, winning two seats in the National Assembly.<ref name=L1>Richard A Lobban Jr & Paul Khalil Saucier (2007) Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Scarecrow Press, p230</ref> In the presidential elections a month later, ADM candidate Jorge Carlos Fonseca finished third of the four candidates with 3% of the vote.
The alliance split prior to the 2006 parliamentary elections, which UCID and the PTS contested alone, while the PCD did not participate.