Mario Pires

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Mário Pires (* 1949 ?) Was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 2002 to 2003 .

Political career

Pires was the fourth and last Prime Minister in President Kumba Ialá's three and a half year term . He belongs to Ialás Partido para a Renovação Social (PRS) and took office on November 17, 2002, after Ialá had dismissed the previous government shortly before. The day before, the president had dissolved the parliament elected in November 1999 and ruled from then on by decree .

Public sector strikes that lasted for months because of lack of pay put the government under pressure. After the announced new elections had been postponed several times, Pires exacerbated the crisis when he declared that an election victory by the opposition would lead to a new civil war. When President Ialá was overthrown by the military coup of the Army Chief of Staff Veríssimo Correia Seabra on September 14, 2003, Pires also lost his office. Pires and Ialá were initially placed under house arrest. Seabra justified his coup with the incompetence of Ialá and Pires. Two weeks after the coup, the military installed Henrique Pereira Rosa as President and the PRS General Secretary Artur Sanhá as Prime Minister.

After Ialá left the first round of the 2005 presidential election, Pires supported Malam Bacai Sanhá from the PAIGC together with other leading politicians of the PRS in the second ballot , while Ialá spoke out in favor of the then victorious João Bernardo Vieira .

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SURNAME Pires, Mário
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinea-Bissau politician, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
DATE OF BIRTH 1949