Cape Verdeans are choosing their president on 15 November from six candidates, including the outgoing head of state from the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), who is seeking a new five-year term. He is facing, among others, the representative of the MpD, the main opposition party for thirty years, according to RFI.
Cape Verdeans are choosing their president on 15 November from six candidates, including the outgoing head of state from the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), who is seeking a new five-year term. He is facing, among others, the representative of the MpD, the main opposition party for thirty years, according to RFI.
Cape Verde has 419,448 registered voters for the presidential election on Sunday 15 November 2026, including 76,383 living abroad, according to Expresso das Ilhas. The vote provides for 1,302 polling stations, spread between national territory and the diaspora, according to the National Elections Commission (CNE).
One hundred and forty-five international observers from five organisations have arrived or are expected in Cape Verde to monitor the presidential election on 15 November. The mission includes 77 ECOWAS observers and 37 from the African Union, with monitoring of voting and counting, according to Cape Verde's National Electoral Commission.