Presidential elections were held in
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
on 7 August 2011, with a second round run-off on 21 August.
[Elections in Cape Verde]
African Elections Database The result was a victory for
Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca (; born 20 October 1950)
of the
Movement for Democracy, who received 54% of the vote in the second round.
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Campaign
Four candidates contested the elections:New president to be elected
Der Standard, 5 August 2011
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Manuel Inocêncio Sousa, a former Foreign Minister and the candidate of the ruling
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).
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Aristides Lima
Aristides Raimundo Lima (born August 31, 1955) is a former Cape Verdean politician and was the 4th president of the National Assembly from 2001 to 2011. in pdf
Biography
Aristides Lima was born in the island of Boa Vista. He later studied at th ...
, President of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...
. A member of the PAICV, he ran without its support.
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Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca (; born 20 October 1950)
, another former Foreign Minister, and the candidate of the opposition
Movement for Democracy.
*Joaquim Monteiro, an independent.
Results
References
Presidential elections in Cape Verde
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
Presidential
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