Political flags of Guinea Bissau

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by antonio martins
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• Unidentified political flag

• Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
• Partido Unido Social Democrático (PUSD: United Social Democratic Party)
• Plataforma Unida (PU) (United Platform)
• Partido da Renovação Social (PRS: Social Renewal Party)
• União para a Mudança (UM: Union for Change)
• União Eleitoral (UE: Electoral Union)
• Partido do Manifesto do Povo (PMP: Party of the People's Manifest)
• Partido da Unidade Nacional (PUN: Party of National Union)
• Resistência da Guiné-Bissau (RGB: Guinea-Bissau Resistance)
• Movimento Democrático Guineense (MDG: Guinean Democratic Movement)
• Fórum Cívico Guineense - Social Democracia (FCG-SD: Guinean Civic Forum - Social Democracy)
• Partido Democrático Socialista (PDS: Socialist Democratic Party)
• União Nacional para o Desenvolvimento e Progresso (UNDP: National Union for Development and Progress)
• Partido Socialista da Guiné-Bissau (PSGB: Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau)
• Aliança Popular Unida (APU: United Popular Alliance)

• Guinea Bissau
• Flags in politics

Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo-Verde - PAIGC

Recently, after the civil war that torn the country apart, the guinean governmental party PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo-Verde — I think this is still its name) held a convention to decide on its future. The decisions aren’t interesting for us (except that the party continues and keeps the same symbols), but the flag is. This flag was hanging from the table of the convention presidency (a common practice in Portugal also), so I suppose that it as official as one can get. The source for this are TV images.

The flag is just the national flag in a proportion of 1:2 with the sigla of the party beneath the black star, also in black.

This party flag is particlarly important because it gave birth to not one but two national flags: that of Guinea-Bissau and the old national flag of Cape Verde. The Cape-Verdian party PAICV, that nowdays has a different flag, used also a flag in these lines. The reason for this is that Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde constituted a short-lived confederacy after independence under the leadership of the PAIGC, a party that had cape-verdian and guinean membership and was winning the war against the portuguese colonial forces in Guinea-Bissau by the time of the portuguese revolution.

The union broke apart because there were conflicts between the cape-verdians (with a much more european culture — Cape Verde is basically a mixed country, racially, culturally, linguistically, etc.) and the gui