Cabo Verde: President thanks popular support after nine years in office

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Cabo Verde: President thanks popular support after nine years in office

9:37 CAT | 10 Sep 2020

File photo: Lusa

The president of Cabo Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, thanked the popular support of the last nine years of his terms of office, which are being completed today, recalling average approval rates of 90% that he received annually, despite the “ups and downs”.

In a message he posted on his official Facebook account, Jorge Carlos Fonseca recalled that he took office for the first time as president of Cabo Verde on 9 September 2011, then with “a great ambition to serve the country and the Cape Verdeans.

“He also intended to serve the country with passion and determination, in a bid to take steps towards a developed and prosperous Cabo Verde, in a time-frame that was not too long or too distant. With independence and spirit of institutional cooperation, with a sense of moderation and balance, constructive and critical attitude, always being close to the people, communities, citizens, Cape Verdeans”, he assumed.

In the first term of office (2011 to 2016), Fonseca shared power with the government led by the African Party of Independence of Cabo Verde, José Maria Neves, and in the second mandate with the executive of the Movement for Democracy, the current Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva.

The next presidential elections, for which he is prevented from running, will be held within a year.

“I am very grateful to the people of these islands, very comforted and satisfied, authentically spoiled, which gives me energy, will, renewed and permanent passion and determination to continue the exercise of this term of office until its end, in October 2021,” wrote Jorge Carlos Fonseca.

He describes, in the same message, that he failed to accomplish “all” the “noble purposes” that drove him, and “not always in the way and in the dimension intended.

“Throughout all these nine years, and invariably with ups and downs, my countrymen have been giving me signs and proof of solidarity, friendship, sympathy and clear approval. On an annual average reaching the 90% mark, which is truly unique and almost ‘unseemly’ (…), my performance has been valued very positively by citizens,” he added.

He recalled that Cabo Verde still has “a long, hard road to travel”, with challenges to “overcome”, especially given the context of the Covid-19 pandemic that also affects the archipelago, with 4,400 cases diagnosed since 19 March and an economic crisis already manifesting itself.

Jorge Carlos Fonseca also assured that “even after the end” of the current second presidential term, he intends to continue “serving Cabo Verde.

Source: Lusa