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João Santos Luís

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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João dos Santos Luís is a Cape Verdean politician who has served as president of the Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union (UCID), the country's third-largest political party, since March 2022. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of Cape Verde from 2011 to 2021, and again since 2022. He was also a member of the São Vicente Municipal Assembly between 2008 and 2012. Before his political career, he worked in the port sector.

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This entry incorporates text from “João Santos Luís” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.