President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde

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According to the figures from the Electoral Administration Department (DGAE), Pedro Pires was in the lead with a total of 84,793 votes (50.

Pedro Pires is the new president of Cape Verde, his spokesman Rui Araujo announced late Wednesday after learning of Supreme Court rulings on 11 of 12 complaints of irregularities in the Feb 25 runoff election.

At a party congress in August 1993, Pires was replaced as General Secretary by Aristides Lima and was instead elected as President of PAICV.

Pires was the PAICV candidate in the February 2001 presidential election, defeating former Prime Minister Carlos Veiga of the Movement for Democracy (MpD) in the second round by just 17 votes.

Pires took office on March 22; the MpD boycotted his inauguration, saying that the election was marred by a "non-transparent process.

Pires is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil.

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Even though Pedro Pires had decided not to mark his inauguration as president by inviting international guests, citing "economic and logistic" reasons, finally some representatives of "friendly states" attended the ceremony.

Pires takes on powers in a Cape Verdean nation that has turned into a positive economic development.

In public, on the other hand, President Pires has not commented concretely on his political future, but has assured he "will make this public in due time.

Pedro Pires is the third President of Cape Verde since independence from Portugal in 1975.

Pedro Pires receives honorary doctorate from Federal University of Ceará (Brazil.

The President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, will receive an Honoris Causa doctorate degree today from the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Pedro Pires is the fourth Cape Verdean to receive an Honoris Causa degree.

Lisbon - Cape Verde Islands incumbent president Pedro Pires has narrowly won Sunday's presidential elections, according to final results given Tuesday by the National Election Commission.

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Pires has pledged to tackle poverty and unemployment in the archipelago off the West African coast with hardly any natural resources.

Pires took about 65 per cent of the emigrant vote.

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In June 1974 Pires was elected member of the Parliament of Cape Verde and designated on July 6, 1975 as the first Prime Minister of the independent nation of Cape Verde.

His Party, the PAICV, lost the elections and Pires was elected Member of Parliament for Praia.

HE Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires is married to Adelcia Barreto Pires, and they have two daughters, Sara and Indira Pires.

President Pedro Pires is the recipient of the following accolades:Ordem Amílcar Cabral of Cabo Verde,Medalha Amílcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau Ordem do Leão of Senegal Ordem Infante D.

Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires is the socialist President of Cape Verde, since March 2001, succeeding António Mascarenhas Monteiro.

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Cape Verde President Pedro Pires has pressed immigrants from the poor West African country to become part of the American society by becoming politically active and by voting.

President Pedro Pires is the head of state for Cape Verde.