Islands' Fraternity and Unity Party
political party in the Comoros
The Islands' Fraternity and Unity Party (Comorian: Chama cha Upvamodja na Mugangna wa Massiwa, CHUMA) is a political party in the Comoros.
History
The party was formed in Paris in the 1980s by the National Committee for Public Salvation led by Saïd Ali Kemal, the Comorian National United Front and the Union of Comorians.
CHUMA nominated Kemal as its candidate for the 1990 presidential elections. Kemal finished third of out eight candidates with 13.7% of the vote. In the 1992 parliamentary elections the party received 6.2% of the vote, winning three of the 42 seats. However, in the early parliamentary elections the following year CHUMA was reduced to a single seat.
Kemal briefly served as acting president in 1995, and was the party's candidate again for the 1996 presidential elections, finishing fourth out of 15 candidates with 8.7% of the vote. The party boycotted the parliamentary elections later in the year.
The party campaigned for a "no" vote in the 2001 constitutional referendum, but the new constitution was approved by 77% of voters. Kemal ran for the presidency again in the 2002 elections.
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