 Together, they campaigned for the right to contest the presidential election scheduled for December 1990.The one-party state was abolished September 28, 1990, and the first multi-party elections were held in January 1991.The MpD won a majority of the seats in the National Assembly, and the MpD presidential candidate António Mascarenhas Monteiro defeated the PAICV's candidate by 73.5% of the votes cast to 26.5%.