Cape Verde holds parliamentary vote amid major recession

Neither of the two main parties is predicted to emerge the outright winner of election dominated by the pandemic.

Cape Verde, a bastion of democracy in Africa, is holding parliamentary polls with no clear winner in sight after a campaign dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on a tourism-dependent economy. Neither of the two main parties is expected to emerge the outright winner in Sunday’s vote, giving four smaller parties a chance to have their say over the group of islands off the west coast of Africa. In the capital, Praia, queues of voters began forming early in the day in front of schools serving as polling stations.