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“I will be, as I promised, the president of all Sao Tomeans — of those who voted for me and of those who in conscience made other choices.”

Source: Discurso de tomada de posse, São Tomé, 3 September 2011 (full text published by Téla Nón, 5 September 2011)

Context Sworn in again at 74, thirty-six years after he became the country's first president and twenty years after he left office, he addressed the voters who had chosen his rivals.

Manuel Pinto da CostaSão Tomé and Príncipe · b. 1937

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