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Janine Lélis
Janine Tatiana Santos Lélis, born in 1974, is a Cape Verdean lawyer and politician of the Movement for Democracy (MpD).
- Born
- 1974
- Party
- Movement for Democracy
- Office
- Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers 2022–
Centre-right · Where sources place the party (Movement for Democracy)
Wikipedia: centre to centre-right (Movement for Democracy)
Ideology: liberalism, Christian democracy, economic liberalism, social conservatism
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She trained in law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was Minister of Justice and Labour from 2016 to 2021, and Minister of State for National Defence and Territorial Cohesion from 2021 to 2026. She was not among the five candidacies admitted by the Constitutional Court on 21 September 2026 for the presidential election.
Career
Wikipedia records that Lélis has been a lawyer since December 1998 and began her legal career at the airline TACV, where she worked from 1998 to 2008. She holds a law degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a postgraduate degree in business and labour law from 2006. From 2006 to 2016 she was a municipal member and leader of the Independent Group for Change, and from 2011 to 2016 she represented Cape Verde in the Pan-African Parliament. She was Minister of Justice and Labour from 2016 to 2021, then Minister of State for National Defence and Territorial Cohesion from 2021 to 2026.
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Photo: US Embassy Praia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
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Cape Verde Presidential Election Winner 2026
| Outcome | Left – Right | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| José Maria Neves | Centre-left | 78% |
| Joana Rosa | Centre-right | 10% |
| Casimiro de Pina | 3% | |
| Péricles Tavares | 1% | |
| Janine Lélis | Centre-right | 1% |
| Fernando Delgado | <1% | |
| Milton Paiva | <1% |