Angola's best performance then came in the 2008 African Nations Cup.

Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds.

A Crude Awakening, The Role of Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plundering of State Assets.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

Oil production surpassed the exportation of coffee as Angola's largest export in 1973.

The foreign relations of Angola are based on Angola's strong support of U. S. foreign policy as the Angolan economy is dependent on U. S. foreign aid.

This affected the Angolan Civil War that had been ongoing since Angola's independence in 1975.

Nelson Mandela mediated between the MPLA and UNITA factions during the last years of Angola's civil war.

While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.

Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

Angola and the precursor to Russia, the Soviet Union, established relations upon Angola's independence.

During Angola's civil war Cuban forces fought to install a Marxist-Leninist MPLA-PT government, against Western-backed UNITA and FLNA guerrillas and the South-African army.

Relations between the United States of America and the Republic of Angola ( formerly the People's Republic of Angola ) have warmed since Angola's ideological renunciation of Marxism before the 1992 elections.

Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center.

The slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

It is also the location of most of Angola's educational institutions, including the private Catholic University of Angola and the public University of Agostinho Neto.

The November 2000 Parliamentary Elections were generally regarded to have been more transparent and better executed than past elections due to judicial monitoring of polling stations.

The last union-wide elections were the 2009 Parliamentary Elections.

In the 2002 Parliamentary Elections, Musharraf transferred executive powers to newly elected Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was succeeded in the 2004 by Shaukat Aziz.

The 2007 Parliamentary Elections have shown an improvement in the scores of the Reform Party, gaining 12 seats and reaching 31 MPs ; the Centre Party held, while the unified right-conservative Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica lost 16.

Elections for the Assembly are held as in the Parliamentary system — there is an upper time limit ( five years ) between elections, but they can be called more frequently if the Prime Minister so decides, or if he is forced to it by the loss of a vote of confidence.

* European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002

On 10 December 2007, the Parliamentary Board of BJP formally announced that L. K. Advani would be its prime ministerial candidate for the General Elections due in 2009.

The Socialist Labour Party contested both the Scottish Parliamentary and Welsh Assembly Elections in 2011.

* European Parliamentary and Local Elections ( Pilots ) Act 2004

* European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002

In the 2009 Global Parliamentary Elections the Kataeb Party managed to win 5 seats.

The fall of the communist regimes in various Central and Eastern European countries forced, then President Ramiz Alia to gradually remove the old communist nomenklatura from power and government, so in the end of February 1991, Alia appointed Nano as Prime Minister of the transitional government with the purpose of organizing the first post-communist democratic elections in the country being held that year, also to prepare the transition of the country towards democracy and market economy The Parliamentary Elections were held on March 31, 1991 where Labour Party of Albania won the majority.

Since the rejection of the revised Albanian Constitution during the 1994 Referendum, the foreign relations between Albania, the European Union and the United States began to deteriorate due to autocratic manners of the President Berisha in the matters of the state, but they also were sceptical about the abilities of the lidership of the Socialist Party to govern the country, in case the Socialist Party were to win the Parliamentary Elections of 1996.

After the Socialist Party won for the second time, in the Parliamentary Elections in June 24, 2001, Nano returned to politics again after 2 years of inactivity by starting the movement called Catharsis, with the goal to cripple the agreement between Rama and Meta to share the political power between then for the next 10 years.

It was the most successful party in the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections: it won 47. 4 % of the vote and 12 of its candidates were elected as Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ), including Lívia Járóka, the second Roma MEP.

The new government proceeded to disenfranchise the plantation workers of Indian descent, the Indian Tamils, using the Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 and the Parliamentary Elections Amendment Act of 1949.

The legal authority for this system is set out in the Parliamentary Elections Rules in Schedule 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.

The inhabitants of the islands are EU citizens owing to their Dutch citizenship, but most of them were not, until recently, entitled to vote in European Parliamentary Elections.

After the Parliamentary Elections of 2004, in which the United People's Freedom Alliance gained a slim majority in Parliament.

The Commission has a statutory duty to produce reports on the administration of certain elections ( for example UK Parliamentary General Elections ) and may be asked to report on other types of election ( such as local government elections ).

in the 2008 Parliamentary Elections.

The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 ( c. 1 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Its long title is " An Act to amend the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 so as to alter the method used in Great Britain for electing Members of the European Parliament to make other amendments of enactments relating to the election of Members of the European Parliament and for connected purposes.

The Parliament Acts are rarely invoked, the European Parliamentary Elections Act was only the fifth statute since 1911 enacted under their provisions, and only the second since the Parliament Act 1949.