Francisco Fadul

Quick Facts

Full Name	Francisco Fadul
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 15, 1953(1953-12-15)
Age	71
Birthplace	Mansôa
Country	Guinea-Bissau
Birth City	Oio Region
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Francisco Fadul Biography

Francisco Fadul is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 15, 1953 in Mansôa, Oio Region, Guinea-Bissau. Francisco Jose Fadul (born 15 December 1953) is a Guinea Bissau politician who served as the country’s the country’s Prime Minister from 3 December 1998 until 19 February 2000. He headed his party, the United Social Democratic Party (PUSD) which was one of the main opposition parties from 2002 until the year 2006.

He was elected the president of the PUSD on December 18, 2002 at an election convention of the party.

In 2006, Fadul requested that Namuano Dias, a member of PUDS who was serving in the government as Minister of Justice, resign from the government because he had been accused of corruption. Dias and Prime Minister Aristides Gomes rejected this, however, and Fadul responded by resigning from the PUSD leadership and leaving politics; he also left his position as personal advisor to President Vieira. He returned to politics in the next year, establishing a new party, the Party for Democracy, Development and Citizenship (PADEC), in May 2007. He also challenged the leadership of PUSD in court and maintained that he was the party’s legitimate president. On 19 July 2007, he demanded the resignation or dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Cabi, the actions of which he strongly criticized, as well as the dissolution of the National People’s Assembly, to be followed by a new election in March

2008. The government was based on a pact agreed upon by three parties—the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the Party of Social Renewal (PRS), and the PUSD—and Fadul said that the pact was illegitimate because two of the parties (the PUSD and PRS) had disputed leaderships. He also said that the government had not presented its program for approval by the National People’s Assembly.

Later, as President of the Tribunal of Accounts, Fadul said on 20 May 2008 that he planned to sue Prime Minister Cabi for libel and slander, saying that Cabi had falsely accused him of pocketing money. He also said that he wanted Cabi to explain his claim that being President of the Tribunal was incompatible with being the leader of a political party. Some have accused Fadul of taking advantage of his post as President of the Tribunal by attacking Cabi and his government, while he has said that he is merely controlling state accounts and complained that some ministries were ignoring the Tribunal’s injunctions.

After Kumba Yala’s election as President Kumba Yala to the presidency, Fadul became Premier Minister in the hands of Caetano Intchama on February 20, 2000. Fadul later was accused by Intchama of corruptionand, the latter in November 2000 Intchama declared that he would like to pursue legal action against Fadul because of these allegations.

Francisco Fadul Net Worth

Francisco Fadul is one of the richest Politician from Guinea-Bissau. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Francisco Fadul 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fadul was appointed Prime Minister, at top of a national unity government on December 3rd, 1998. He was previously a the political advisor to General Ansumane Mane who was the leader of the revolt to overthrow the president Joao Bernardo Vieira during the Guinea-Bissau Civil War; Fadul was also Mane’s representative in the Executive Joint Commission, which was created in the wake of the Abuja Peace Accord in November 1998. Following his appointment as the Prime Minister, Fadul, in an interview in Expresso, the Portuguese newspaper Expresso in 1998, claimed that Vieira of murder, beatings, and defamation. Vieira of beatings, murders and defamation. He also accused him of insulting prominent political figures and demanded Vieira to be brought to trial for the crimes he was accused of. Fadul also claimed Vieira as an oligarchy and claimed that Vieira was among the richest people in the world and claimed that Vieira’s fortune nearly exceeded the total of Guinea Bissau’s foreign debt. He further claimed that Vieira was the primary reason behind the rise in animosity within the country. Fadul also called for the return of Luis Cabral, who was removed by Vieira in the year 1980. Fadul declared on the 23rd of December that the main focus of his administration will be to address issues related to the military and veterans of the war for independence.

Fadul as well as his government of unity comprising five ministers and three secretary of state selected from Vieira as well as four Ministers as well as four state secretaries selected by Mane’s junta officially sworn in on the 20th of February 1999 in the presence Vieira as well as Mane. The first day of April, 1999 while speaking at the very first meeting of the National People’s Assembly since the conflict, Fadul prioritized facilitating the returning of refugees to their homes. He also said that elections would be held as was planned for late 1999. He travelled to a tour that included 4 European countries later that month to seek assistance. He arrived in Portugal on April 19th in the country, and during his stay Fadul criticized Vieira’s secret force as worse that his own Portuguese secret police that was under Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Vieira’s spokesperson, Cipriano Cassama has condemned Fadul’s comments in the context of “purposely offensive, aggressive language”.

In May 2005, Fadul was initially barred from running for president in the 2005 presidential election by the Supreme Court, due to a technicality. According to the Court, two people who were indicated as signing Fadul’s nomination papers had not confirmed signing them. A PUSD spokesman expressed the view that Fadul had actually been excluded because his father was Lebanese. The Court reversed itself and approved Fadul’s candidacy shortly afterward, including him in its final list of candidates on 18 May. Running as the PUSD presidential candidate, he placed fourth with 2.85% of the vote in the election, held on 19 June 2005.

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Facts & Trivia

Francisco Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Guinea-Bissau. Francisco Fadul celebrates birthday on December 15 of every year.