What is the recent political history in Namibia?
UN-supervised elections were held in November 1989. Ten political parties stood, including SWAPO, which gained 57% of the votes and 41 out of the 72 seats in the Constituent Assembly. In February 1990 Dr Sam Nujoma was elected by the Constituent Assembly to be the first president of an independent Namibia. Nujoma and SWAPO were returned to power in the 1994 elections. SWAPO won decisive majorities in the December 1994 elections, gaining 76% of the popular vote in the presidential and 73% in the parliamentary polls. In late November 1998, parliament passed a constitutional amendment to allow Nujoma to serve more than two terms. Namibias High Commissioner to the UK, Ben Ulenga, resigned in protest against both the amendment and Namibias military involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ulenga later formed a new political grouping which was registered as the Congress of Democrats (CoD). However, the elections in November/December 1999 produced a clear win for both SWAPO and Presid
