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Namibia: swapo wins two‐thirds majority

1995; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 63 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03056249508704105

1740-1720

Dávid Simon,

ICT Impact and Policies

Namibians went to the polls on 7 and 8 December 1994 to elect a new National Assembly for the first time since independence. This represented another landmark for the young country which has continued to make quiet progress away from the glare of international publicity. Unlike the UN-supervised elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1989, or the recent transitional elections in South Africa and Mozambique, the build-up was surprisingly muted, violence and intimidation were absent, and the actual elections attracted minimal media coverage abroad. Although SWAPO increased its share of the vote to well over two-thirds, enough to amend the Constitution unilaterally, no dramatic changes to the status quo are expected.