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![[Democratic Party of the Seychelles]](../images/s/sc}dp01.gif)
image by
Tracy Dunbar
This is the flag of the Democratic Party of the Seychelles which governed the island state from from the first year of independence from 1976 to 1977.
It is now in opposition.
It is the same size as any standard flag.
Gary Selikow, 6 October 2001
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![[Seychelles National Party]](../images/s/sc}snp.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
The Seychelles National Party (SNP), a Liberal party, emerged as the clandestine "Parti Seselwa" in 1991; when multipartism was proclaimed the same year, the Party Seselwa was the first officially registered party. The next year, in the first multiparty election scheduled in the country since 1974, the Party Seselwa did not reach 5% of the shares of the votes and could not enter the Constituent Assembly that drafted the new Constitution. For the 1993 general elections, the Party Seselwa, the National Alliance Party and the Seychellois National Movement formed "The United Opposition" (UO); the UO won 9% of the share of the votes and the historic leader of the Party Seselwa, Wavel Ramkalawan, was proportionally-elected to the National Assembly.
In 1998, the UO increased its share of the votes to 27% and became the second
most represented party after the Seychelles Peoples Progressive Front (SPPF);
Ramkalawan was appointed leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. The
same year, the Party Seselwa was renamed the Seychelles National Party. In 2002,
the SNP increased its share of the votes to 43%, winning 11 of the 34 seats of
the National Assembly, which were confirmed in the 2007 election. Wavel
Ramkalawan could not manage to be elected President of the Republic, either in
2001 or 2006, with 44% and 46% of the share of the votes, respectively.
Source: SNP website
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
![[Seychelles National Party]](../images/s/sc}snp-y.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
The SNP website shows several photographs of meetings and street
demonstrations involving the party. The most frequently seen flag is a plain
green flag, with several shade variations. The party seat is located in a place
called Arpent Vert, lit. "Green Arpent", which might be the origin of the
party's colour. During the "GST March" (2003), the green flag was used, together
with a green flag bearing the party acronym in yellow capital letters and
another green flag with an emblem.
Source:
http://www.snpseychelles.sc/picmarch.jpg
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
![[Seychelles National Party]](../images/s/sc}snp-w.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
During the 2006 campaign for
the presidential election, the green flag was again used, together with a
green flag bearing the party acronym in white capital letters.
Source:
http://www.snpseychelles.sc/picarrally.jpg
During the
"Candlelight March", 31 August 2007, another green flag was seen, charged
with unreadable writing in white letters.
Source:
http://www.snpseychelles.sc/pages/Candle%202.htm
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
![[Seychelles National Party]](../images/s/sc}snp-h.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
During the "Rally
against High Cost of Living" (26 May 2008), green flags were still used,
together with green flags with the party's acronym either in yellow or white
capital letters. A green flag bears, below the party's acronym in yellow
capital letters, "Parti Seselwa" in white capital letters. An horizontally
divided green-white flag bears the party's acronym in green capital letters
in the white stripe.
Source:
http://www.snpseychelles.sc/Pictures/index.htm
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2008
