Elsa Maria Neto D'Alva Teixeira de Barros Pinto is a
São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...
politician, and the country's former Defence and Justice Minister and from December 2018 until September 2020 Foreign Minister.
In 2003 and 2004 (at least), she was a member of the Council of Ministers, as Secretary of State for Administrative Reform and Public Administration, and was a member of the
(MLSTP-PSD) political party.
She was the
Minister of Justice and Public Administration from 2004 to 2006 and in 2010.
According to
Pravda
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, she was
Minister of National Defence, as well as Minister for Justice, from 2008 to 2010. According to
Whitaker's Almanack
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, she was still Minister of Defence as of July 2011.
In February 2013, she was the Attorney-General of São Tomé and Príncipe, when she was exonerated by a presidential decree of having issued a cheque for US$15,000 with insufficient funds to honour it to pay for car hire charges during the 2011 presidential elections.
In November 2015, she stood against
Aurélio Martins
Aurélio Pires Quaresma Martins (born November 24, 1966) is a São Toméan journalist, businessman and politician, who until May 2018 was leader of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party
(MLSTP/PSD).
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(the incumbent, and competing for the second time, having been the party leader since 2011) for the leadership of the
(MLSTP-PSD) political party after the economist
Agostinho Meira Rita merged his candidacy with hers.
References
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Living people
Women government ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party politicians
Defence ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Justice ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Female justice ministers
Female defence ministers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Foreign ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Female foreign ministers
21st-century São Tomé and Príncipe politicians
21st-century São Tomé and Príncipe women politicians