Carmen Pereira

Carmen Pereira ( b. 1937 ) in 1984 for two days of state of Guinea- Bissau.

Early years

Pereira came from a well-off family in the former Portuguese colony. Her father was a lawyer. 1962 concluded she and her husband Umaru Djallo to the independence movement PAIGC. In the same year she fled to Senegal. The end of 1963 they went to the Soviet Union and opened on their return, Hospital in the areas controlled by the PAIGC area. During the war against Portugal, she was the only woman on the executive committee of the guerrilla movement and was responsible for the medical community,

After independence,

After the Declaration of Independence in 1973, she was deputy for Bissau, second Vice President of the Parliament and one of the 15 members of the State Council. From 1975 to 1981 she was chairman of the State Commission for Women and Minister for Health and Social Affairs. In 1984 she was President of the Parliament.

In this capacity, she was on 14 May 1984, to formally head of state for two days, as the 1980 Come in a coup to power João Bernardo Vieira introduced a new constitution and officially took the presidency on 16 May 1984.

On April 25, 1989, she was the occasion of the celebrations for the 15th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and stopped beside the President Mário Soares and Parliament Speaker Victor Crespo, one of the speeches in the Portuguese Parliament.

In 1992, she was removed from office by Vieira.

Currently ( 2005) she's back Vice- President of the Parliament.

This and That

In November 1986, she was part of the delegation of their country at the 9th Congress of the SED in Berlin.