Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde "Movimento de Libertação da Guiné Portuguesa", MLGP) Its life was short due to internal conflict and it was soon replaced by the United Liberation Front ("Front Uni de Libération", FUL), a predecessor of the Struggle Front for the National Independence of Guinea ("Frente de Luta Pela Independencia Nacional da Guine-Bissau", FLING) Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde The Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: "Frente de Libertação da Guiné Portuguesa e Cabo Verde", FLGC) was a militant political party in Guinea-Bissau, then part of Portuguese Guinea, formed to seek independence from Portugal. It was established
Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde) However, in the presidential elections in the same year, MpD candidate Jorge Carlos Fonseca defeated the PAICV's Manuel Inocêncio Sousa by 54–46%. Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde) The Movement for Democracy (, MpD) is a Christian democratic and liberal party in Cape Verde. Established in 1990, it was the ruling party from 1991 to 2001 and returned to power in the 2016 parliamentary election. Its members are nicknamed "os ventoinhas" ("the wind fans"). The MpD was established on 14 March 1990 by Carlos Veiga after Prime Minister Pedro Pires of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV,