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Carlos Vila Nova is re-elected President of São Tomé and Príncipe. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Carlos Villanova is
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  re elected president of Sauteme and Principei. Presidential elections were
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  held in Sauteme and Principe on the nineteenth of July
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  twenty twenty six. Incumbent President Carlos Villanova won re election
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  in the first round, this time running as an independent
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  candidate with a support from MLSTPPSD, receiving fifty five point
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  nine four per cent of the vote, while his main
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  opposition candidate, Nito Abrayu, who was supported by Villanova's former party,
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  Independent Democratic Action, reached forty one point four two per cent.
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  The turnout reached a record low of forty one percent.
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  Carlos Manuel Villanova is a Santomean politician who is the
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  fifth and current President of Sauteme and Principei since the
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  second of October twenty twenty one. He served as the
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  Minister of Public Works and Natural Resources and Minister of Infrastructure,
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  Natural Resources and the Environment in successive governments of Prime
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  Minister Patrice Trovoada. This article lists the presidents of Sautmae
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  and Principe, an island country in the Gulf of Guinea
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  off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa since the
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  establishment of the office of president in nineteen seventy five.
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  Manuel Pinto da Costa was the first person to hold
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  the office, taking effect on the twelfth of July nineteen
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  seventy five. The incumbent is Carlos Villanova, having taken office
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  on the second of October twenty twenty one. That's it
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  for now. See the episode notes for Wikipedia's sources and licensing.
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  Thank you.