Pedro Pires

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Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires
President of Cape Verde
Incumbent
Assumed office  22 March 2001
Prime Minister	José Maria Neves
Preceded by	António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Prime Minister of Cape Verde
In office 08 July 1975 – 04 April 1991
President	Aristides Pereira António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Carlos Veiga
Born	29 April 1934 (1934-04-29) (age 74)
Political party	PAICV

Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires (born 29 April 1934) is the socialist President of Cape Verde, since March 2001, succeeding António Mascarenhas Monteiro.

Before becoming president he had been the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, and led the country between 1975 to 1991, when he was defeated in the country's first multi-party elections.

Pires ran for president in February 2001, defeating former Prime Minister Carlos Veiga in the second round by an extremely narrow margin and taking office on March 22. He ran for re-election in the presidential election held on 12 February 2006 and again prevailed over Veiga, this time winning in the first round, but still with a small margin of 50.98% against 49.02% for Veiga.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Heads of Government of Cape Verde
• Heads of State of Cape Verde
• Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-IV), 2008.

[edit] References

Political offices
Preceded by Office created	Prime Minister of Cape Verde 1975 – 1991	Succeeded by Carlos Veiga
Preceded by António Mascarenhas Monteiro	President of Cape Verde 2001 – present	Incumbent

v • d • e Prime Ministers of Cape Verde Pedro Pires | Carlos Veiga | Gualberto do Rosário | José Maria Neves

v • d • e Presidents of Cape Verde Aristides Pereira | António Mascarenhas Monteiro | Pedro Pires