Carlos Gomes Júnior
| Carlos Gomes | |
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| Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau | |
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In office 2 January 2009 – 10 February 2012 |
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| President |
João Bernardo Vieira Raimundo Pereira (Acting) Malam Bacai Sanhá Raimundo Pereira (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Carlos Correia |
| Succeeded by | Adiato Djaló Nandigna (Acting) |
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In office 10 May 2004 – 2 November 2005 |
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| President |
Henrique Rosa (Acting) João Bernardo Vieira |
| Preceded by | Artur Sanhá |
| Succeeded by | Aristides Gomes |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 December 1949 Bolama, Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau) |
| Political party | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde |
| Spouse(s) | Salomea Neves |
Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior (born December 19, 1949) is a Guinea-Bissauan politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 10 May 2004 to 2 November 2005, and again from 25 December 2008 to 10 February 2012. He has been the President of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) since 2002 and is widely known as "Cadogo". He resigned as prime minister on 10 February 2012 to run in the presidential election triggered by President Malam Bacai Sanhá's death on 9 January.
Gomes was born in Bolama. He was a delegate to PAIGC's Fifth Congress in December 1991, and in the first multiparty elections, held in 1994, he was elected to the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau from the 26th Electoral District. In 1996, he was elected First Vice-President of the National People's Assembly, Second Secretary of the Interparliamentary Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, and Vice-President of the Interparliamentary Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union. In the National People's Assembly, he also served as Chairman of the Committee for Economic Affairs and President of the Administrative Council. At PAIGC's Sixth Congress in May 1998, Gomes was elected to the party's Political Bureau, and at the party's Third Extraordinary Congress in September 1999 he was re-elected to the Political Bureau and also became the party's Secretary for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation.
Gomes was elected as President of PAIGC at the Fourth Extraordinary Congress in January–February 2002. He is a banker and businessman, reputed to be the richest man in Guinea-Bissau. PAIGC won the most seats in the March 2004 parliamentary election, and Gomes became Prime Minister in May.
Prior to the victory of former president Vieira in the mid-2005 presidential election, Gomes said that he would resign if Vieira was elected, referring to the latter as a "bandit and mercenary who betrayed his own people". After Vieira's election, Gomes initially refused to recognize the result, but he also moved away from his earlier threat to resign. Vieira took office on 1 October 2005, and almost two weeks later he and Gomes had a meeting, with Gomes anticipating that the two would be able to work together. However, on 28 October Vieira announced the dissolution of Gomes's government, and a long-time ally of Vieira, Aristides Gomes, was appointed Prime Minister on 2 November 2005.
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