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[Pires] No, not so much. It is not unknown territory for me. I have the advantage of being able to communicate because we speak the same language. This facilitates my mission and facilitates my communication with voters, political parties and electoral officers. So on the contrary, it [the mission] is to a certain extent made easier. The fact that I know Angola, Luanda, more Luanda than the rest [of the country], has helped me to better organize the team that I am heading. There are various teams. Some were sent to the provinces. Our representatives were in a further seven provinces in addition to Luanda and we had four teams here in Luanda, three of which covered Luanda Norte and Luanda Sul and then my team, which was a more mobile team, we chose to go to [words indistinct]. It was, therefore, interesting work. I would even say it was a work of discovery because we were able to make contact with the voters, with people from the most diverse social backgrounds and watch the people of Angola vote. Even [words indistinct]. As for the rest, I understand that the process ran normally, with civism, good humour even and good participation. This gives us the idea that everything proceeded normally. In my view, it did indeed proceed normally.

Maputo 17 Nov (AIM) -The President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, on Tuesday called on the Capverdian community living in Mozambique to strengthen its relationship with its Mozambican neighbours in order to guarantee victory against poverty and against HIV/AIDS. Speaking in the neighbourhood of Khongolote, in the southern city of Matola, Pires stressed that there is no difference between Mozambicans and Capverdians hence the need to \"continue working together for the social and economic welfare of both countries and people.\" Most of the Capverdians living in Khongolote are descendants of Mozambican slaves who were deported to the west African island of Sao Tome during the period of Portuguese colonial rule. Their descendants subsequently left Sao Tome and migrated elsewhere, including to Cape Verde. Thus, Mozambique is the country of origin of their ancestors.

[[Pedro Pires], RTPINT 13:30:27] I want to reaffirm here my commitment to Cape Verde. I want to reaffirm here my commitment to the men and women of Cape Verde, my commitment to keeping all the promises I made in this election campaign, and to guarantee all the conditions to ensure Cape Verde has stability and wins always. Cape Verde should always win. [13:30:59]

[Presenter] Policemen from Guinea-Bissau are not attending the ninth meeting of Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) police chiefs taking place in Sao Tome and Principe because they were not granted travel visas by Portugal. Guinea-Bissau's Foreign Minister Delfim da Silva regretted this and also regretted statements made by former Cape Verdean President Pedro Pires who said in an interview that Guinea-Bissau's Armed Forces, 40 years after independence, had become and we quote -tools of tyranny and delinquency.

President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde today made a brief visit to Guinea-Bissau. In an interview with Candido Camara, our Dakar correspondent, Pedro Pires began by congratulating the people of Guinea-Bissau: [Pires] First, I would like to say that the holding of legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau was a very important development. I would say the legislative elections were a major gain for the people of Guinea-Bissau. Despite their shortcomings, the people of Guinea-Bissau were able to organize elections. One should praise the people of Guinea-Bissau for their achievement. Obviously, there were minor problems, but according to latest reports, the situation has been clarified.

[Pedro Pires] is the new president of Cape Verde. The announcement was officially made moments ago by the National Elections Commission of Cape Verde.

[Veiga - recording] I will not accept any result other than victory. And I say this because there are worrying signs that there have been attempts to manipulate the data. We will not accept this manipulation, as we will not accept the attempts which have already been made - that is the manipulation of the data concerning those registered to vote. We saw the number of registered voters changing as the votes were counted, when this number should be fixed. We are also seeing the abstention rate develop in a strange and contradictory manner.

[Presenter] There has been a change of scenario in Cape Verde. With all the votes counted in the first round of the presidential elections, candidate Pedro Pires now appears slightly ahead of candidate Carlos Veiga. The PAICV [African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, former Single Party] leader has achieved 46.5 per cent of the vote, while the MPD [Movement for Democracy] candidate has gathered 45.9 per cent of the vote. Only two polling stations have votes still left to be counted.

[Presenter] Today, some 260,000 people in Cape Verde will elect a new president, the third in the history of this country. These elections take place almost one month after the general elections in which the PAICV [African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, former Single Party] won for the first time in 10 years. There are two main candidates in these elections: one is Pedro Pires, supported by the PAICV, and the other is Carlos Veiga of the MPD [Movement for Democracy]. They are both former prime ministers of Cape Verde. Pedro Pires was the first candidate to vote.

The former PAICV [African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde] leader is the third candidate for the presidential elections, after the announcement of Carlos Veiga and David Hopher.