Democratic Front of the Comoros

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The '''Democratic Front of the Comoros''' ({{langx|fr|Front Démocratique des Comores}}, FDC) was a political party in the [[Comoros]].

==History== The FDC began its existence as an exile group, and was initially led by Mustapha Saïd Cheikh, who had been imprisoned for involvement in a coup attempt in 1985.<ref name=TL>Tom Lansford (2015) ''Political Handbook of the World 2015'', CQ Press</ref> The party was invited to join [[Said Mohamed Djohar]]'s government in 1990, and campaigned for the proposed new constitution in the [[Comorian constitutional referendum, 1992|1992 referendum]].

The party finished third in the popular vote in the [[Comorian legislative election, 1992|parliamentary elections]] later in the year, but won only two seats. Both seats were lost in the [[Comorian legislative election, 1993|early elections]] in 1993.

Cheikh was the FDC candidate for the [[Comorian presidential election, 2002|2002 presidential elections]], but finished last in a nine-candidate field. The party subsequently joined the [[Camp of the Autonomous Islands]] alliance prior to the [[Comorian legislative election, 2004|2004 parliamentary elections]]. The alliance won 12 of the 18 elected seats and all 15 of the indirectly elected seats.<ref name=TL/>

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[[Category:Defunct political parties in the Comoros]]

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