Carlos Veiga

Carlos Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Veiga (born October 21, 1949 in Mindelo) is a Cape Verdean politician. He was Prime Minister of Cape Verde from April 4 1991 to July 29 2000, and he unsuccessfully ran for President as the candidate of the Movement for Democracy (MpD) in 2001 and 2006.

Veiga served as Prime Minister under President António Mascarenhas Monteiro from 1991 to 2000. He resigned in July 2000 in order to stand as the MpD's candidate in the February 2001 presidential election.‎ ["Political Parties of the World" (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, pages 113–114.] He was succeeded as Prime Minister by Gualberto do Rosário.

In the 2001 presidential election, Veiga lost by an extremely narrow margin to Pedro Pires of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) in a second round of voting. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1204648.stm "New president for Cape Verde"] , BBC News, March 6, 2001.] ["Cape Verde: National Election Commission declares Pedro Pires as new president", Televisao Publica de Angola (nl.newsbank.com), March 5, 2001.] He ran again in the February 2006 presidential election, but lost again to Pires.

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External links

* [http://capeverde-islands.com/veiga.html Biography of Carlos Veiga]
* [http://www.carlosveiga.cv Website]