List of presidents of Cape Verde

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This article lists the presidents of Cape Verde, an island country in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, since the establishment of the office of president in 1975. Aristides Pereira was the first person to hold the office, taking effect on 8 July 1975. The incumbent is José Maria Neves, having taken office on 9 November 2021.

Term limits

As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Cape Verde. The first president for whom the term limits applied was Monteiro in 2001.[1]

List of officeholders

Political parties

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  African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

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  African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV)

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  Movement for Democracy (MpD)
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Elected Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Time in office
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |1 File:Aristide Pereira detail DF-SC-84-10021.jpg Aristides Pereira
(1923–2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1975
1981
1986 		8 July 1975 22 March 1991 Template:Ayd PAIGC
(until 1981[2])Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | PAICV
(from 1981[2])Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |2 File:Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro 2012.png António Mascarenhas Monteiro
(1944–2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1991
1996 		22 March 1991 22 March 2001 Template:Age in years years MpD
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |3 File:Secretary Alphonso Jackson with Pedro Pires (cropped).jpg Pedro Pires
(born 1934)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		2001
2006 		22 March 2001 9 September 2011 Template:Ayd PAICV
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |4 File:Jorge Carlos Fonseca 2014.png Jorge Carlos Fonseca
(born 1950)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		2011
2016 		9 September 2011 9 November 2021 Template:Ayd MpD
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |5 File:José Maria Neves, 2023.jpg José Maria Neves
(born 1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		2021 9 November 2021 Incumbent Template:Ayd PAICV

Timeline

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Latest election

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 113.

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External links

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