Cape \u200bVerde votes for president on Sunday, with incumbent Jos\u00e9 Maria Neves facing \u200coff against the West African island nation’s first female candidate, a former justice minister, in a campaign focused on the need to create more jobs for young people.<\/p>\n
Situated more than 600 \u200bkm (373 miles) west of mainland Africa, the former Portuguese colony is home to \u200bonly around 500,000 people, with a larger number of Cape Verdeans \u2060living overseas, mainly in the United States and Portugal.”<\/p>\n
Neves, who was prime minister \u200bfor 15 years and became president in 2021, is from Cape Verde’s oldest political \u200bparty, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), which won 37 out of 72 seats in legislative elections in May, allowing Francisco Carvalho to become prime minister.<\/p>\n
Analysts have tipped Neves to perform \u200bbest out of the six candidates, including his main challenger Joana Rosa of \u200bthe Movement for Democracy party, which had governed for 10 years prior to the legislative vote.<\/p>\n
Under \u200ca \u2060hybrid parliamentary-presidential model, the president has veto authority and a mediating role in Cape Verde.<\/p>\n
The archipelago, a tourism destination which hit the headlines this year when its men’s soccer team reached the World Cup knockout stage and when a cruise ship off its \u200bcoast was struck by hantavirus, \u200bhas lost many \u2060of its young people to jobs abroad.<\/p>\n
Neves has vowed to organize a youth summit during his second term while Rosa has \u200bsaid the government should make it possible for young people \u200bto “build their \u2060futures here at home and prevent the continued exodus of young Cape Verdeans abroad”.<\/p>\n
Polls were set to open at 8 a.m. (0900 GMT) and close at 6 p.m. (1900 GMT), with \u2060official \u200bprovisional results expected in two or three days.<\/p>\n
If \u200bno candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the two top candidates will compete in a runoff \u200bon November 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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