Seychelles Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Republic of Seychelles

Type: republic; member of the Commonwealth

Capital: Victoria, Mahe Island

Legal system: based on English common law, French civil law, and customary law

National holidays: 5 and 29 June

Branches: President, Council of Ministers, People’s Assembly

Government leader: France Albert RENE, President (since June 1979)

Suffrage: universal adult

Elections general election held June 1979 gave 98% approval to Rene as only presidential candidate on yes/no ballot; reelected in June 1984 with 92% of vote

Political parties and leaders: Rene, who heads the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front, came to power by a military coup in June 1977; until then he had been Prime Minister in an uneasy coalition with then President James Mancham, who headed the Seychelles Democratic Party; Rene banned the Seychelles Df mocratic Party in March 1978 and announced a new constitution in March 1979 that turned the country'intoa one-party state

Communists: negligible, although some Cabinet ministers espouse pro-Soviet line

Other political or pressure groups trade unions, church

Member of: AfDB, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, NAM, O AU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO

NOTE: The information regarding Seychelles on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Seychelles 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Seychelles 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.