The Democratic Party (DP) is affiliated to the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA), which is in turn a regional body of the International Democrat Union (IDU) – a grouping of centre-right parties which include Republican Party of the US, the Conservative Party of Great Britain, the Liberal Party of Australia, the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union of Germany as well as the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UDM) of France among others. The Seychelles National Party (SNP) is affiliated to the Liberal International – a collection of centre left parties. So which international grouping does the Seychelles Peoples’ Progressive Front (SPPF) belong?
Not so long ago, however, we knew which block it belonged to, as the article from the Seychelles Nation of 10 January 1990 attests. That was 17 years ago. In fact, the
