Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet satellites had to transition from a one-party, centrally planned economy to a market economy with a multi-party political system.

Meanwhile, despite his intention to maintain a one-party system, the elements of a multiparty system were already crystallizing.

After almost sixteen years of one-party rule, President Rene announced a return to the multiparty system of government at an Extraordinary Congress of the ruling Seychelles People's Progressive Front ( SPPF ) on 4 December 1991.

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who ruled Togo under a one-party system, died of a heart attack on 5 February 2005.

The politics of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are defined by a single-party socialist republic framework, where the President of Vietnam is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of government, in a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Vietnam is a Socialist Republic with a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ).

The constitution framed a system called " one-party participatory democracy ", which in practise meant that UNIP became the sole political factor in the country.

* June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.

The 1977 Constitution legalised a one-party system.

In January 1953, Nasser overcame opposition from Naguib and banned all political parties, creating a one-party system, the Liberation Rally, whose purpose was to function as a national movement that would replace all parties.

The PAICV and its predecessor established a one-party system and ruled Cape Verde from independence until 1990.

A single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a type of party system government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election.

With increased fraud, violence and intimidation, white Redeemer Democrats gained control of the state legislature in 1876 and established a new system of one-party rule.

In effect, these legislators ( and members of the ruling KMT ) held their seats for life, in a one-party system.

Having originally been a proponent of new German-Austria becoming a part of the democratic German Republic, he expected Nazism to be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of Dollfuss ' and Schuschniggs's authoritarian one-party system.

For the remainder of his presidency, Kenya was effectively a one-party state, and Kenyatta made use of detention, appeals to ethnic loyalties, and careful appointment of government jobs to maintain his commanding position in Kenya ’ s political system.

Under this document, the government operated under a one-party system with supreme power held by the National Congress of the Kuomintang and effective power held by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.

When applied to an entire state, democratic centralism creates a one-party system.

Liberia had been a one-party system since 1877.

Notice the one-party dominance of the Nacionalista Party | Nacionalistas from 1907 to 1941, the two-party system with the emergence of the Liberal Party ( Philippines ) | Liberal Party in 1946, the return of one-party dominance by the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan | KBL from 1978 to 1984, and the multiparty system from 1987 to the present.

After World War II, most Central and Eastern European countries became de facto one-party states, but in theory they were ruled by coalitions between several different political parties who voluntarily chose to work together.

Following the dissolution of the Republican Party in 1876, the True Whig Party dominated the Liberian government until the 1980 coup, eventually creating what was effectively a one-party state.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

After the coup in Bissau, political repression sharply decreased but the one-party PAICV state established at independence remained until 1990.

Founded in 1869, the party dominated Liberian politics from 1878 until 1980 to the extent that the country was virtually a one-party state, although opposition parties were never outlawed.

When universal adult suffrage was introduced here in 1951, the ATLU, under the banner of the Antigua Labour Party, won all seats in the legislature, a feat it repeated until 1967, making Antigua a country with a multi-party system but a freely voted one-party control.

For example, the United States until 1800, India from independence until 1979, and Japan until 1993 were all under one-party rule, and thus would not be counted under this definition ( Ray 1995, p. 100 ).

From 1947 until 1962, the Colorado Party ruled Paraguay as a one-party state ; all other political parties were illegal.

In practice, however, Paraguay remained a one-party dictatorship until the overthrow of longtime president Alfredo Stroessner in 1989.

* The Kuomintang established a de facto one-party state in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) until political liberalization and the lifting of martial law in the late 1970s.

Abbas resigned in protest at the FLN's decision to establish a one-party state under Ben Bella He was then placed under house arrest from 1964 until 1965.

Ironically given their condemnation of Youlou's attempt to abolish all other parties, they also set up a one-party state that remained in place until 1991.

* The overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Mengistu Haile Mariam who then set up one-party Marxist-Leninist rule in Ethiopia by the communist Workers ' Party of Ethiopia, 1977 – 1991, until they were defeated and expelled by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front during a subsequent civil war.

Politically, Texas changed from a virtually one-party Democratic state, to a highly contested political scene, until 2000 when it was solidly Republican.

In February 1972, Zambia became a one-party state, and all other political parties were banned.

Responding to growing pressure for a political opening, the PAICV called an emergency congress in February 1990 to discuss proposed constitutional changes to end one-party rule.

During February 1983, the leaders of the Tudeh Party were arrested and the Party disbanded, leaving Iran effectively a one-party state.

As the country was subjected to a one-party regime, February 15 of the same year, by decision of the Board of Colorado Party, gathered in Convention he got the possibility for the implementation of the Statute of Party and the appointment of Dr. Felipe Molas López as a candidate for president.

He retained the portfolio of Minister of Defense ( August 17, 1960 – January 1, 1966 ) and Keeper of the Seals ( August 17, 1960 – January 2, 1963 ) and amended the Constitution to transform his regime into a one-party state with a strong presidency elected for a term of seven years.

In its 1963 form, the constitution declared Algeria a one-party state ruled by the former resistance movement, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ).

When he arrived in Parliament in 1963, the country had a one-party government through three general elections.