Politics of Cape Verde takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic,whereby the Prime Minister of Cape Verde is the head of government and the President of the Republic of Cape Verde is the head of state,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The constitution,first approved in 1980 and substantially revised in 1992,forms the basis of government organization. It declares that the government is the "organ that defines,leads,and executes the general internal and external policy of the country" and is responsible to the National Assembly.
Cape Verde follows a policy of nonalignment and seeks cooperative relations with all friendly states. Angola,Brazil,the People's Republic of China,Cuba,France,Germany,Portugal,Senegal,Russia,South Korea and the United States maintain embassies in Praia.
The recorded history of Cape Verde begins with the Portuguese discovery of the island in 1458. Possible early references to Cape Verde date back at least 2,000 years.
Aristides Maria Pereira was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde,serving from 1975 to 1991.
JoséMaria Pereira Neves is a Cape Verdean politician who is currently the president of Cape Verde,having previously served as the Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). In the 2021 presidential election,he was elected with 51.7% of votes,beating his nearest rival Carlos Veiga who got 42.4% of the total votes.
The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde. It was the sole legal party in the country from 1981 to 1990. Its members are nicknamed "os tambarinas" in Portuguese,and they identify themselves with the color yellow.
The Cape Verde national football team represents Cape Verde in men's international football,and is controlled by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. The team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup,but has qualified for four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments,in 2013,2015,2021 and 2023. The team achieved their best result in 2023 after making it past the first round of the knockout stage.
The National Assembly is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Cabo Verde.
Manuel Inocêncio Sousa is a Cape Verdean politician. Sousa was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2002 and subsequently Minister of Infrastructure,Transports and Sea.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde,officially the Republic of Cabo Verde,is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean,consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert,the westernmost point of continental Africa. The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion,along with the Azores,the Canary Islands,Madeira and the Savage Isles.
Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca is a Cape Verdean politician,lawyer and university professor who served as the President of Cape Verde from 2011 to 2021. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1993. Supported by the Movement for Democracy (MpD),he won the 2011 presidential election in a second round of voting. Presidential elections were held in Cape Verde on 2 October 2016,where he was re-elected with 74.08% of the vote.
Sérgio Manuel Monteiro Semedo is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club C.F. Esperança de Lagos as a midfielder.
Local elections were held in Cape Verde on 1 and 22 July 2012.
Janira Isabel Fonseca Hopffer Almada is a lawyer and politician from Cape Verde who served as the president of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) from 2014 to 2021.
Liceu Domingos Ramos is a public secondary school in the northern part of the city centre (Plateau) of Praia,Cape Verde. As of 2015,it has 2,300 students,63 classes and 110 teachers. It was established as Liceu Adriano Moreira in 1960. In 1975,at the independence of Cape Verde,it was renamed Liceu Domingos Ramos.
The Ministry of Justice and Labor of Cape Verde oversees the operations of the prison officers,judicial police,official justice,notaries,and other legal professionals.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Verde is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Cape Verde in March 2020.
Presidential elections were held in Cape Verde on 17 October 2021. The result was a victory for JoséMaria Neves of the opposition African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV),who received 51.8% of the vote.
