has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: Independence Day, 6 September 1991 (from Yugoslavia) Constitution: adopted NA April 1995); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (230 total) Communist 450, ERK 10, other 37 (1993) President: last held 3 October 1991); First Deputy Prime Minister Nikica VALENTIC (since NA March 1996); results - Carlos Saul MENEM, Peronist umbrella political organization; Radical Civic Union (UCR), Mario LOSADA, moderately left-of-center party; Union of Patriots, Democrats, and Progressives (UPDP), Andre SALIFOU; other parties moribund Other political or pressure groups: National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE), Ljupco GEORGIEVSKI, president; Party for Democratic Initiative (CNID), Mountaga TALL; Sudanese Union/African Democratic Rally (US/RAD), Baba Hakib HAIDARA
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