Seychelles Political History and Governance

Seychelles Political History and Governance. Economy, Corruption, Society and Environment. A Book on Seychelles. This Book gives you the whole information on Seychelles. After having dominated Seychellois politics for nearly 40 years, on September 10th the Seychelles People’s Party (Parti Lepep in Creole) lost the parliamentary elections in the small Indian Ocean archipelago. The election victory of the opposition (the Seychelles Democratic Alliance Linyon Demokratik Seselwa) constitutes a dramatic political shift in the country, and can be regarded as a major step in its development towards a consolidated democracy. The recent parliamentary elections were preceded by a presidential election in December 2015, which produced a razor-thin victory (50,15% of votes) for the incumbent president, James Alix Michel. After his party’s defeat in the parliamentary elections, Michel who has been president of Seychelles since 2004 announced his resignation, and his intention to hand over powers to the vice president,....