Liberation Front of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde 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 in Dakar in 1960 by Amilcar Cabral and Henri Labėry from an amalgamation of the Liberation Movement of Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (French:"Mouvement de Liberation de la Guinee Portugaise et des Iles du Cap Vert", MLGCV) with other groups such as the Liberation Movement of Portuguese Guinea (Portuguese:
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde union finally broke down in 1980 following the military coup led by João Bernardo Vieira against the Cape Verdean Cabral. The Cape Verdean branch of PAIGC was subsequently converted into a separate party, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). Under Vieira, the party continued to govern the country in the 1980s and 1990s. One-party elections were held in 1984 and 1989, and Vieira was re-elected as PAIGC Secretary-General at the party's fourth congress in November 1986. Following the introduction of multi-party politics in May 1991, the first multi-party elections were held in 1994. The general elections