Aristides Gomes

Aristides Gomes ( born November 8, 1954 in Canchungo ) was dated November 2, 2005 to April 13, 2007 Prime Minister of Guinea- Bissau.

Political career

Gomes comes from Canchungo in the region Cacheu in the northwest of the country.

He joined on 18 December 1973, the independence movement and later Partido Africano da unit Indepencia as e Cabo Verde Guinea ( PAIGC ) in the case that led a guerrilla war against Portugal until 1974. Later he studied in Paris sociology and political science. He was temporarily head of the youth organization of the party Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral ( JAAC ) and 1990-1992 Director General of the television Televisão experimental because Guiné -Bissau. In the 1990s, he was under the 1999 ousted President João Bernardo Vieira Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation.

On the VI. National Congress of the PAIGC in May 1998, he was elected to the Politburo and at the extraordinary party congress in February 2002, first vice president of the party after he had applied unsuccessfully for the party presidency. His later predecessor as Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Júnior, was elected at this congress as the new president of the party. After the electoral victory of the PAIGC in the parliamentary elections in March 2004, he was in the formed in May government of Carlos Gomes Júnior Minister of Labour and Public Service.

In the presidential elections in June and July 2005, he supported the April returned from exile former president João Bernardo Vieira against the official candidate of his party, Malam Bacai Sanhá. He took over the management of Vieira's election campaign and then lost his party posts. After Vieira's office, he and 13 other MPs in October, the fraction of the PAIGC in the People's Assembly, which consisted of 45 parliamentarians until then.

Prime minister

After the dismissal of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior by President Vieira on October 29, 2005 Aristides Gomes was appointed on 2 November 2005 as the successor and sworn in immediately. A burden for his government is the lack of parliamentary majority and the strained relationship with his former party colleagues in the PAIGC. His new government belong next to him on three other former PAIGC MPs, five Ministers are provided by the Partido para a Renovação Social ( PRS) of the former president Kumba IALA. Only one of the previous government Of the total 27 belonged to the Minister.