President Fonseca eyes second term in Cape Verde vote

[WorldNews]

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Cape Verde's President Jorge Carlos Fonseca has a second term within clear reach as the Atlantic archipelago, hailed as a model for African democracy, heads to the polls Sunday without a main opposition candidate. Fonseca's tour of all nine of Cape Verde's inhabited islands ended Friday after more than two weeks of campaigning with his liberal Movement for Democracy (MFD), which has enjoyed a series of landslide victories this year. The MFD's victories in a March general election and municipal polls in September have dealt serious blows to the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), which consequently decided not to field a presidential candidate.

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