Aristides Raimundo Lima (born August 31, 1955) is a former Cape Verdean politician and was the 4th president of the National Assembly from 2001 to 2011.
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Biography
Aristides Lima was born in the island of Boa Vista. He later studied at the São José Seminary near
Ponta Temerosa in Praia and at Liceu Gil Eanes in São Vicente island in 1974.
In 1976, he completed a course at the School of Journalism in Friedrichshagen, Berlin and worked as a journalist at ''Voz di Povo'' from 1976 to 1978. In 1983, he went to the
University of Leipzig
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. From 1999 to 2000, he attended the
University of Mannheim
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and later at
Heidelberg
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where he graduated in law. He later attended at the Amílcar Cabral Institute and the
National Historic Archives.
In 1985, he became member of the PAICV, he took part in elections in
1991
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,
1996
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,
2001
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and in
2006
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.
At a party congress in August 1993, he replaced
Pedro Pires
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.
Life and career
Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cape ...
and Lima became General Secretary of PAICV.
From 2001 to 2011, he was president of the National Assembly of Cape Verde. He succeeded
António do Espírito Santo Fonseca
António do Espírito Santo Fonseca (born April 26, 1951) is a former Cape Verdean politician and was the 3rd president of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2001. in pdf He succeeded Amílcar Spencer Lopes and was succeeded by Aristides Raimundo ...
and was succeeded by
Basílio Mosso Ramos.
In 2004, he awarded the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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.
He ran for elections in 2011 as a PAICV member, he was third and received 44,648 votes or 27.71% in the first round.
Works
*"A Importância da Não Reciprocidade e do Tratamento Preferencial dos Países em Vias de Desenvolvimento nas Relações Internacionais e especialmente no Direito Internacional Público, na Perspectiva dos Países em Vias de Desenvolvimento", University of Leipzig,1983
*''Reforma política em Cabo Verde''
'Political Reform in Cape Verde'' Praia, 1991
*"Grundzüge des Politischen Reformprozesses in Kapverden", 1992
*''Estatuto jurídico-constitucional do Chefe de Estado
'Judicial-Constitutional Statute of the Head of State'' University of Heidelberg, 2000 (2004)
*''Constituição, democracia e direitos humanos: discursos de representação e outros textos''
'Constitution, Democracy and Human Rights: Speeches of Representation in Other Texts''(February 2004)
*''O recurso constitucional alemão e o recurso de ampara Cabo-Verdiano uma análise comparativa'' (September 2004)
*''No Parlamento ao serviço da nação e dos boavistenses''
'Boa Vistans in Parliament for the Service of the Nation'' Alfa-Comunicações, Praia, 2005
References
Further reading
*Richard A. Lobban Jr et Paul Khalil Saucier, "Aristides Raimundo Lima", in ''Historical dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland ; Toronto ; Plymouth, UK, 2007, p. 137–138
External links
Biography at the National Assembly website(pdf)
1955 births
Living people
Cape Verdean diplomats
Presidents of the National Assembly (Cape Verde)
Members of the National Assembly (Cape Verde)
People from Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde politicians
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