Last modified: 2008-02-28 by antónio martins
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This party arose from the common P.A.I.G.C. party from
Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, that
had a yellow over green flag with a red stripe at hoist,
and from which where derived both the current flag of
Guinea-Bissau and the
previous flag of Cape Verde.
I don’t know how old is this flag (I didn’t know it before),
but I suspect it dates from the time when the P.A.I.C.V.
abandoned marxism-leninism and became a western-type
socialist party. The P.A.I.C.V., by the way, was formed when
the confederation between Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde got
split, leading to the split of the common P.A.I.G.C. party.
In Guinea, the party kept the same name.
Jorge Candeias, 11 Mar 1999
The party emblem and flag are prescribed in the party statues, adopted during the VIIIth congress of PAICV, held in Praia on 20 September 1997. PAICV had been founded on 20 January 1981. The original text in Portuguese can be found at www.paicv.org/Estatutos.html. Here’s my translation attempt:
Ivan Sache, 14 Dec 2001Article 3. Symbols.
- 1. The symbols of PAICV shall be its emblem and its flag.
- 2. The emblem shall be a rectangle divided in three smaller rectangles of different proportions, placed from top to bottom as follows:
- a. a main rectangle of yellow colour, on which is placed a five-pointed star, which points touch the sides of the said rectangle, being one point on each side — upper, left and right —, and two points on the bottom side
- b. a green rectangle
- c. a red rectangle on which is placed the acronym of the party PAICV.
- d. the aforementioned rectangles are separated by narrow horizontal stripes.
- 3. The flag shall be made of a rectangle divided into two fields:
- a. three vertical stripes, equal in shape ans area, from left to right, green, red, and yellow.
- b. a main white field, charged in the middle with a black five-pointed star. The acronym of the party PAICV is placed just below the star.
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A person I met from Cape Verde commented about a flag which is a white
ground and a circle in the middle of it; inside of the circle is some kind
of leaves going around each other.
Ásta Einarsdóttir, 30 Mar 2000
I believe that it is the flag of the MpD Party, one of the two biggest
political parties in Cape Verde (the other is
P.A.I.C.V.). As far as I remember the MpD flag has a
white field, a black circle centered in that field, and some kind of a
green wind fan (3 or 4 leaves?) within the circle.
Cláudio Alexandre Duarte, 6 May 2004
The logo of M.P.D. shows on
this
photo, a four-sail wind wheel yellow, red, blue and green.
António Martins, 21 Nov 2006
During the February 2006 presidential elections in Cape Verde, (defeated)
candidate Carlos Veiga used as his campaign logo a design loosely based on
the national flag: a red panel with a white stripe
below the middle with blue letters reading "Confiança"
(Portuguese for "trust") and a ring of 11 yellow stripes superimposed on
the white stripe. (The website is
still available and shows this design in
vectorial
detail.) This was used as a makeshift campaign flag (made of plastic,
printed on one side only, probably not meant to be used as flags).
Examples in online photos:
#qp210,
#cc246,
#vp246,
#cm246,
#cm246,
#sa246 and
#sa246.
António Martins, 21 Nov 2006
The complete panel had the same flag-like use. Examples in online photos:
#vp214,
#vp225,
#cm212,
#bt300
and
#bt308.
More examples in online photos (both types):
#vp217,
#vp226,
#vp234,
#vp250,
#cm269,
#sa212,
#sn241 and
#bt290.
António Martins, 21 Nov 2006
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