Damião Vaz d'Almeida (born 28 April 1951) served as the 12th

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and the vice-president of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD). He became Prime Minister on 18 September 2004 after being chosen by his party, and confirmed by President

Fradique de Menezes Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes (born 21 March 1942) is a São Toméan politician who was the third president of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2003 to 2011. Early life Menezes was born on the then Portuguese colony ...

three days after Menezes had dismissed the government of Maria das Neves. D'Almeida had previously served as minister of

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and solidarity in governments led by Gabriel Arcanjo da Costa and most recently, Maria das Neves. He is from

Príncipe Príncipe (; ) is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Cens ...

and has held a number of high positions on the island, most notably president of the Pagué district assembly and president of the Príncipe regional government from 29 April 1995 to 12 April 2002. Damião Vaz d'Almeida's government consisted of ministers from both the MLSTP-PSD and

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(ADI) parties. He presented his resignation to President Menezes on 2 June 2005, saying his working relationship with Menezes had deteriorated to the point where they could no longer work together. The two disagreed about how to handle a civil servants' strike and about Menezes's awarding of offshore oil blocks."Prime minister resigns after civil servant strike, oil controversy"
IRIN, June 3, 2005. Six days after his resignation, a new government led by

Maria do Carmo Silveira Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira (born 14 February 1961) served as the 13th prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 June 2005 to 21 April 2006. Background She was educated as an economist at the Donetsk National Univer ...

was sworn in.

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