National Assembly (Cape Verde) National Assembly (Cape Verde) The unicameral National Assembly (Portuguese: "Assembleia Nacional") is the legislative body of the Republic of Cape Verde. The country's first legislative election took place in June 1975. The body was known as the National People's Assembly and its members came from the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which was the sole political party allowed to field candidates. They elected PAIGC Secretary-general Aristides Pereira President on 5 July 1975, when the country officially gained independence from Portugal. One-party elections were again held on 7 December 1980 with Pereira being re-elected unopposed
Literature of Cape Verde publish after independence. Mariano also wrote books that were about some earlier great Cape Verdean writers. Germano Almeida wrote "O dia das calças roladas" in 1982, "The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo" in 1989 which mixes humor with cruel realism, sometimes pathetic, in a modern writing favoring the free indirect style. It was later made into a movie in 1997. He later wrote on the History of Cape Verde titled "" in 2003. His recent works are main set in around Mindelo including "De Monte Cara vê-se o mundo" in 2014, not long after the bay