José Maria Neves

The government of President José Maria Neves may ramp up spending ahead of the vote and undermine the latest fiscal reforms according to the IMF...

Nor did the Saab issue play any role in campaigning for the 16 October presidential election which was narrowly won by the PAICV-supported candidate former prime minister José Maria Neves...

The president currently Jorge Carlos Fonseca who is also supported by the opposition Movimento para a Democracia (MpD – presidents may not belong to parties); the Speaker of Parliament Basílio Mosso Ramos (PAICV); and the Prime Minister José Maria Neves (PAICV) would all get a massive 65% rise (AC Vol 52 No 17 Fonseca's win tests nerves)...

Voters snubbed Prime Minister José Maria Neves’s plea to elect Manuel Inocêncio Sousa opting instead in large numbers for Aristides Lima a prominent ex-PAICV politician...

This could be problematic: Prime Minister José Maria Neves formed a government after the PAICV won parliamentary elections in February but it holds only 37 of the 72 seats...

While this reflects well on his economic management Prime Minister José Maria Neves is worried about losing access to soft loans from multilateral sources that have sustained a long-term programme of social spending and poverty reduction...