Independence of Mauritius

Mauritius gained independence from the United Kingdom on 12 March 1968. The independence process was the culmination of a long struggle involving a number of political parties, most notably the Mauritius Labour Party (MLP) and the Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD). Independence was agreed in principle at a constitutional conference in London in September 1965, confirmed by a general election and a vote of the Legislative Council in August 1967, and given legal effect by the Mauritius Independence Act 1968. Shortly before independence, the United Kingdom detached the Chagos Archipelago from the colony to form the British Indian Ocean Territory, a step which the International Court of Justice concluded in 2019 meant that the decolonisation of Mauritius had not been lawfully completed.

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