Adelino Lucas is a
São Toméan politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
. He served as Secretary of State for Social Communication, first from April 2006
Oil and tensions bubble beneath the surface
IRIN, 5 January 2007 to May 2008 and then from 12 December 2012 to 24 November 2014.
Lucas ran for Prime Minister of his country in September 2014 under president Manuel Pinto da Costa
Manuel Pinto da Costa (born 5 August 1937) is a Santomean economist and politician who served as the first president of São Tomé and Príncipe from 1975 to 1991. He again served as president from 2011 to 2016.
Life and career
Educated in Eas ...
, he lost to Patrice Trovoada
Patrice Émery Trovoada (born 18 March 1962) is a São Toméan politician who is the 15th prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe since November 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister from February 2008 to June 2008, from August 2010 to ...
in its parliamentary elections.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Government ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century São Tomé and Príncipe politicians
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