Manuel Inocêncio Sousa (born 22 June 1951) is a Cape Verdean politician. Sousa was

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of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2002 and subsequently Minister of Infrastructure, Transports and Sea.

Biography

Manuel Inocêncio Sousa was born in

Mindelo Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook ...

on the island of São Vicente. He became a member of PAICV in 1988 in the government of the

African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde ( pt, Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde. It was formerly a Marxist–Leninist communist party and the sole legal p ...

(PAICV). From 1991 to 2001, he was deputy of the

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. Afterwards he was Foreign Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2002 he succeeded

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and was succeeded by Fátima Veiga. He stood unsuccessfully as the PAICV's candidate in the 2011 presidential election on March 12, In the first round on August 7, he was second with 32.47% behind Fonseca with 37.76% and head of

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by 27.8%, in the second round, he lost to Fonseca with 45.84% of the vote.

References

1951 births Living people Foreign ministers of Cape Verde People from Mindelo {{CapeVerde-politician-stub