Antonieta Rosa Gomes

Antonieta Rosa Gomes (born May 4, 1959 in Bissau , Portuguese Guinea ) is a politician from Guinea-Bissau .

Life

Anonieta Rosa Gomes founded the Guinean Citizens' Forum Social Democracy (Fórum Cívico Guineense-Social Democracia) in Brazil on February 23, 1991 , which was recognized as a party in Guinea-Bissau on March 31, 1994. In the elections of July 3, 1994, she ran for the office of President for the first time , but was only last among eight candidates with 5509 votes (1.79 percent). The party itself only got 494 votes (0.2 percent) in the parliamentary elections that were taking place at the same time and could not win any of the 100 seats to be allocated in the National People's Assembly.

In the presidential elections that followed on November 28, 1999, Gomes ran again for president, but this time only got 2986 votes (0.80 percent) and was the last of the twelve candidates. Her party was also unable to win a seat in the National People's Assembly. Nevertheless, in 2000, she was appointed Minister of Justice in his government by Prime Minister Caetano N'Tchama . After he resigned on March 19, 2001, she was appointed Foreign Minister in his cabinet by his successor Faustino Imbali on March 21, 2001, to which she was a member until the end of Imbali's term of office on December 9, 2001. In the parliamentary elections on March 28, 2004, her party again failed to make it into the National People's Assembly with 4,209 votes (0.98 percent).

Gomes also ran for president in the June 19, 2005 presidential election. This time she received 1642 votes (0.37 percent), making her twelfth and thirteen candidates. The Fórum Cívico Guineense-Social Democracia no longer stood in the parliamentary elections on November 16, 2008 and April 13, 2014. She herself also decided not to run again in the presidential elections on June 28, 2009, March 18, 2012 and April 13, 2014.

Web links

• Female Ministers of Foreign Affairs
• Short biography in rulers.org
• Foreign Ministers - Guinea-Bissau