List of Presidents of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau

List of Presidents of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau.

This is a list of Presidents (Speakers

Speaker (politics)

The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...

) of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau

National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau

The unicameral National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau is the country's legislative body.The current National People's Assembly, formed following elections held on 28 March 2004, has a total of 102 seats. 100 members are elected through a system of party-list proportional representation...

Name	Entered office	Left office
João Bernardo Vieira João Bernardo Vieira João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power in 1980, Vieira ruled for 19 years, and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994. He was ousted at the end of the 1998–1999 civil war and went into exile...	1973	1978
?	1978	1980
No Legislative Arm of Government	1980	1984
Carmen Pereira Carmen Pereira Carmen Pereira is a politician in Guinea-Bissau. She served three days as Acting President in 1984, becoming the first woman in this role in Africa and the only one in Guinea-Bissau's history.-Early life:...	May 14, 1984	1989
Tiago Aleluia Lopes	?	1994
Malam Bacai Sanhá Malam Bacai Sanhá Malam Bacai Sanhá is a Guinea-Bissau politician who has been President of Guinea-Bissau since 8 September 2009. A member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde , Sanhá was President of the National People's Assembly from 1994 to 1999 and then served as acting President...	1994	May 1999
?	1999	2000
Jorge Malú	January 28, 2000	September 14, 2003
No Legislative Arm of Government	2003	2004
Francisco Benante Francisco Benante Francisco Benante is a politician in Guinea-Bissau and a member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde . He was President of PAIGC from 1999 to 2002 and President of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau from 2004 to 2008.Benante is a lawyer by profession...	May 7, 2004	2008
Raimundo Pereira Raimundo Pereira Raimundo Pereira is a Guinea-Bissauan politician and lawyer who has been the President of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau since December 2008. A member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde , he served as President of Guinea-Bissau in an interim capacity...	December 22, 2008	March 3, 2009
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo (ad interim)	March 3, 2009	Present

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