Africa-Press – Cape verde. Vladmir Silves Ferreira, anthropologist, sociologist and professor at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), is the new secretary-general of PAICV. The name was chosen at the first meeting of the party’s national council, which ended in the early hours of today, after the 18th congress, a meeting held over the weekend, in Praia, which officially confirmed Francisco Carvalho as president and candidate for prime minister in the 2026 legislative elections.
The national council also chose the new political committee, the permanent management body, led by the party president and which now has Joanilda Alves, former deputy and commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission, João do Carmo, deputy, and Mário Paixão, former president of the public company Airports and Air Security (ASA), as vice-president.
Three names were also chosen to join the permanent committee: Janira Hopffer Almada, lawyer, deputy, former president of PAICV (2014-2021) and minister (2008-2015), Armindo Freitas, mayor of Santa Catarina (Assomada) and deputy Carlos Tavares.
These three names join the president, vice-presidents, secretary-general and president of the parliamentary group in the permanent committee, a body that assumes political representation between meetings of the political committee.
The PAICV national council board will be chaired by Fátima Fialho.
Francisco Carvalho said that the party is united, pointing out the fact that the new bodies include two of its opponents in the internal elections in May. Nuias Silva and Francisco Pereira remain on the political committee and, during the congress, both had already mentioned that the dispute was over and they support the new president.
The three of them walked onto the stage hand in hand.
The mayor of Praia won the election within the party, in the first round, with around 62% of the votes, on May 25.
In his closing speech at the congress on Sunday – as he had already done at the opening on Friday – Francisco Carvalho thanked Janira Hopffer Almada, recalling that it was thanks to the choice of the then party leader, in 2020, to run for the capital’s municipality, that he began the path of his rise within the party and, now, his candidacy for prime minister.
“He created the conditions for us to be here today and he continues to be with us,” he said.
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