The government is currently a republic under multiparty democratic rule. Marxism-Leninism was dropped in December 1989 and democratic reforms were adopted in February 1990. A transition to a multiparty system was completed in April 1991. According to US State Department reports, the constitution provides for freedom of religion and the government respects this right in practice.
2003 U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report on Benin
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