About 419,400 Cape Verdean voters, of which 76,400 in the diaspora (18% of the total), today choose who will take over the position of President of the Republic in the next five years.
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15/11/2026
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Cerca of 419,400 Cape Verdean voters, of which 76,400 in the diaspora (18% of the total), today choose who will take over the position of President of the Republic in the next five years.
José Maria Neves, current President of the Republic, tries to maintain the tradition that all Presidents elected by universal suffrage in Cape Verde who disputed a second term were re-elected.
Neves is supported by the African Independence Party of Cape Verde (PAICV, power), which he has already directed and for which he was Prime Minister for 15 years (2001-2016).
The former Minister of Justice, Joana Rosa, has the support of the Movement for Democracy (MpD), which in the May legislature gave power to the PAICV, returning to the parliamentary opposition, after 10 years of governance.
Joana Rosa is the first woman to enter her name in the ballot of the country's presidential elections.
The newsletter has four other candidates without links to the two main parties: Gilson Alves, doctor, Casimiro Pina, jurist, Antero Tavares, judge, and Loisito Sousa, professor.
In the last presidential elections in 2021, the abstention was 52%.
Today's elections will take place at about a thousand poll tables on the islands between 8:00 and 6:00 (between 9:00 and 7:00 in Lisbon), while in the diaspora there will be about 240.
If no candidate obtains more than half of the votes validly cast, a second round will be held on November 29.
The vote in the archipelago will be accompanied by some 150 observers from six international organisations.