Africa-Press – Cape verde. The former president of the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID) and national deputy António Monteiro is the party’s candidate for the 2024 municipal elections in São Vicente, this being the sixth time he has run for office.
The information was confirmed today, in a press conference, by the president of the UCID, João Santos Luís, justifying that the island of São Vicente “cannot continue in the stagnation” in which it finds itself with the current mayor.
According to Santos Luís, Augusto Neves is “anti-dialogue, authoritarian” and has “weak technical capacity and no conditions to look for appropriate solutions that serve the island and place it at a different level of development”.
“It is our firm conviction that the UCID candidate for the 2024 municipal elections in São Vicente, engineer António Delgado Monteiro, has the strategic vision, wisdom and necessary humility, attributes that we consider decisive to capitalize on the enormous potential that the island holds”, considered.
According to the same source, the candidate is aware of his responsibilities and knows the island “very well”, “its difficulties and its strengths” and, as such, “is in a position to serve São Vicente and its population in the best way possible.” possible and not make use of São Vicente as has been happening with the successive mandates of the current building”.
For the politician, the “economic and social decline of the island” leads the UCID to state that “a new turn for São Vicente is urgent” that “potentiates all the strengths and potential” of the island.
Asked what the arguments will be to convince the electorate to bet on António Monteiro, as this is the sixth time he has run for president of the São Vicente City Council, João Luís revealed that the arguments are the projects that will be presented, which cover the entire population of São Vicente.
The president of the UCID said that the party will have candidates in at least 50 percent (%) of the municipalities, that is, the party intends to compete in 11 municipal councils in the country.
António Monteiro, 54 years old, from Mindelo, born in São Tomé and Príncipe, on June 9, 1961, was raised in the neighborhood of Fonte Francês, a suburb of Mindelo.
Father of three daughters, married, António Monteiro, from 1975 to 1979, studied Electricity at the Mindelo Industrial and Commercial School, and graduated, in 1985, in Electromechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Odessa (former USSR), where he was president of the Foreign Student Association.
He was also president of the Cape Verdean Student Association in the former Soviet Union. A member of the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID) since 1992, António Monteiro was elected president of the party in 1997, re-elected in 2005 and at the XV Congress held in July 2009, on the island of São Vicente.
He is a deputy to the National Assembly for the São Vicente constituency, and was a councilor elected by the UCID lists in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 municipal elections.
António Monteiro’s professional career has been at the Electricity and Water Company (Electra), where he worked as an electrician, electricity and water network inspector, senior technician in the Exploration Department and supply director at the São Vicente Delegation (Matiota) .
The UCID leader also worked at Enapor, Ports of Cape Verde, where he was responsible for maintenance services, the equipment division and was also director of engineering and IT.
During his academic career, António Monteiro was a professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia e Ciência do Mar (Isecmar), he taught courses on pedagogical training for monitors, equipment planning and port maintenance, engine design and operation and communication techniques.
In the next municipal elections he will run for the sixth time for the position of president of the Chamber of São Vicente.
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