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    Elections to the French National Assembly were held in French Cameroons on 2 January 1956. The four seats allocated to the constituency were elected on...
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    Algeria 1951 French legislative election in Cameroon 1951 French legislative election in Chad–Ubangi-Shari 1951 French legislative election in French Sudan 1951...
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    French Cameroon, also known as the French Cameroons (French: Cameroun), was a French mandate territory in Central Africa. It now forms part of the independent...
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  • Legislative elections were held on 23 December 1956 and the resulting Assembly passed a decree on 16 April 1957 which made French Cameroon a state. It...
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  • and Yaounde, the French Administration repressed these riots. On December 18, 1956, the UPC began boycotting legislative elections. They enacted a “zone...
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    The French Section of the Workers' International (French: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was...
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    French Togoland (French: Togo français) was a French colonial League of Nations mandate from 1916 to 1946, and a UN trust territory from 1946 to 1960 in...
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    Rajoelina Electoral calendar Electoral system "Legislative and Second Round of Presidential Elections in Madagascar" (PDF). Carter Center. 18 December...
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    André-Marie Mbida (category People from Littoral Region (Cameroon))
    election to Parliament at the French National Assembly on 2 January 1956 in the third electoral district of the UN Trust Territory of the Cameroons under...
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  • Julienne Niat (category People from West Region (Cameroon))
    (Assofecam) in 1950 and the first woman to run for legislative elections in Cameroon in November 1951. Julienne Niat was born in 1927 in Bana. She belonged...
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  • Alexandre Douala Manga Bell (category Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic)
    Cameroon became French in 1919 according to the Treaty of Versailles. The French government now forced the moving of Alexandre Douala-Bell to France,...
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    Weigert, Stephen L., ed. (1996), "Cameroon: The UPC Insurrection, 1956–70", Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa, London: Palgrave...
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  • further French supervised elections because it claimed that the PTP was receiving French support. By statute in 1955, French Togoland became an autonomous...
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    François Mitterrand (category Candidates in the 1965 French presidential election)
    which won the 1956 legislative election. As Justice Minister (1956–1957), François Mitterrand allowed the expansion of martial law in the Algerian conflict...
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  • Dominant-party system (category Elections)
    Évariste Ndayishimiye, in office since June 18, 2020 Presidential election, 2020: CNDD-FDD 71.45%  Cameroon[citation needed] Cameroon People's Democratic...
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    Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
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    Georges Pompidou (category Deaths from lymphoma in France)
    POMP-id-oo, French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) pɔ̃pidu] ; 5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974...
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    Christopher Fomunyoh (category 1956 births)
    institutions in Guzang, Ambo, and Eka-Bifang, then went on to the Cameroon Protestant College, Bali for secondary school studies, graduating in 1973. He later...
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    natives were allowed to stand for elections into the Legislative Assembly. There were elections held in 1951, 1954 and 1956 prior to the United Kingdom granting...
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  • Simon Pierre Tchoungui (category Prime ministers of Cameroon)
    in the Free French Forces from 1942 to 1945. He then studied at Dakar Medical School, qualifying as a surgeon to 1947, when he returned to Cameroon....
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    Prior to the revolution, elections were held every five to six years, and elected both the president and members of both legislative branches. Following the...
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  • causa de un infarto (in Spanish) Le cinéaste Claude Fournier s'éteint à 91 ans (in French) British writer and historian Patrick French dies of cancer at...
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  • Isi Yanouka, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Ivory Coast (2013–2016) and Cameroon (since 2016). András Zsinka, 75, Hungarian Olympic middle-distance runner...
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    elections have taken place in Kenya since 1920, when the first elections to the Legislative Council were held. The legislature initially had 11 elected Europeans...
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    Libyan general election 1956 Libyan general election 1960 Libyan general election 1964 Libyan general election 1965 Libyan general election Gumuchian, Marie-Louise...
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    Superior Council member. Elections were held under this system in 1953–54 and 1956–57. The first direct elections in Rwanda were held in September 1961, with...
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    officiel du Sénégal (in French). 28 May 2010. Wikidata Q125145915. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 March 2024. Elections Législatives au Sénégal: le...
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    district in 1906, in order to give the Theotokis party a safe district. A notable case of gerrymandering in Greece was in the 1956 legislative election. While...
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    a unicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law. Between 1956 and 2011, Tunisia operated as a de facto one-party state, with...
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  • Bicameralism (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    colleges and universities. From 1956 to 1958 the Andhra Pradesh Legislature was unicameral. In 1958, when the State Legislative Council was formed, it became...
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