Cabo Verde: New government has 28 members, more women

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Cabo Verde: New government has 28 members, more women

9:19 CAT | 18 May 2021

Photo: Lusa

The new Cape Verdean government, which will continue to be led by Ulisses Correia e Silva (MpD), will be made up of 28 members, as opposed to the 20 that began the previous term, with the number of women increasing from four to nine.

The inauguration of the new Government is scheduled for Thursday, 20 May. It is the result of the legislative elections held on 18 April, which the Movement for Democracy (MpD) won with an absolute majority of seats in parliament.

The new cabinet keeps Olavo Correia as deputy prime minister and minister of finance and business development and Fernando Elísio Freire as sinister of family, inclusion and social development.

The fourth figure in the government hierarchy is Janine Lélis (former minister of justice and labour), promoted to minister of state and takes on defencee and territorial cohesion.

When questioned by journalists, Ulisses Correia e Silva, who arrived more than an hour later than expected for his audience with the president to present Jorge Carlos Fonseca with the final list of the new government, admitted that the choice process was not easy.

“The day that forming a government is easy, we will no longer be in the world of politics. But I can guarantee, because I have been called conservative, and in some matters, I am, that if there is no need to change, and that it is duly justified, it is preferable to keep it,” he said.

According to Ulisses Correia e Silva, this option results in “gains that have to do with the experience curve, people performing the same position gain more experience in the position. And if they have the conditions to continue, they will continue. This was the option of keeping the essential members of the previous government”.

The new government will have, in addition to the prime minister, 18 ministers (including a deputy prime minister and two ministers of state) and nine secretaries of state, compared to the 15 ministers and four secretaries of state who, also with Ulisses Correia e Silva, began the previous legislature in April 2016.

Source: Lusa