Aristides Gomes

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Aristides Gomes (born November 8, 1954 in Canchungo ) was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from November 2, 2005 to April 13, 2007 . He has held this office again since April 16, 2018, with one interruption. On February 28, 2020, Nuno Gomes Nabiam was also appointed Prime Minister.

Political career

Gomes comes from Canchungo in the Cacheu region in the north-west of the country.

He joined the independence movement and later unity party Partido Africano da Indepencia da Guinea e Cabo Verde ( PAIGC ) on December 18, 1973 , which led a guerrilla war against Portugal until 1974 . He later studied sociology and political science in Paris . He was temporarily head of the youth organization of the party Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral (JAAC) and from 1990 to 1992 director general of the television station Televisão Experimental da Guiné-Bissau . In the 1990s he was Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister for Planning and International Cooperation under President João Bernardo Vieira, who was ousted in 1999 .

On the VI. At the PAIGC congress in May 1998 he was elected to the Politburo and at the extraordinary congress in February 2002 he was the party's first vice-president after he had unsuccessfully applied for the party chairmanship. His later predecessor as prime minister, Carlos Gomes Júnior , was elected as the party's new president at this congress. After the PAIGC won the parliamentary elections in March 2004, he became Minister of Labor and Public Service in the government of Carlos Gomes Júnior formed in May.

In the presidential elections in June and July 2005, he supported the ex-President João Bernardo Vieira, who had returned from exile in April, against his party's official candidate, Malam Bacai Sanhá . He took over the leadership of Vieira's election campaign and then lost his party offices. After Vieira's inauguration, he and 13 other MPs left the PAIGC faction in the People's Assembly , which until then had consisted of 45 MPs.

prime minister

After the dismissal of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior by President Vieira on October 29, 2005, Aristides Gomes was appointed as his successor on November 2, 2005 and was sworn in immediately. A burden for his government is the lack of a parliamentary majority and the tense relationship with his previous party friends in the PAIGC. His new government includes three other former PAIGC MPs and five ministers from the Partido para a Renovação Social (PRS) of ex-President Kumba Ialá . Of the total of 27 ministers, only one belonged to the previous government.

In 2018 he became Prime Minister again. On October 29, 2019, he was replaced by the acting President José Mário Vaz by Faustino Imbali ; after eleven days, however, Imbali had to resign under pressure from ECOWAS , and Gomes was restored to office.

On February 28, 2020, Umaro Sissoco Embaló , who had sworn in the day before, appointed Nuno Gomes Nabiam to the office. Gomes still sees himself as the legitimate prime minister.

Web links

Commons : Aristides Gomes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guinea Bissau: Aristides Gomes appointed prime minister . In: Financial Afrik . April 16, 2018 ( financialafrik.com [accessed May 28, 2018]).
  2. ^ Guinea-Bissau's prime minister resigns after 11 days in role. bloomberg.com of November 9, 2019 (English), accessed January 6, 2020
  3. ↑ Aristides Gomes. africatimes.com of November 9, 2019 (English), accessed on January 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Gomes, Aristides
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinea-Bissau politician, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Canchungo