President Miguel Trovoada of the West African island of Sao Tome e Principe has formally asked the leader of the largest parliamentarian party to name a new prime minister following November’s elections, the Portuguese agency Lusa said yesterday. Manuel Pinto da Costa, the leader of the ruling party, the Movimento de Libertacao de Sao Tome e Principe-Partido Social Democrata (MLSTP-PSD), said it had already decided on the Prime Minister, but refused to say who he would be. Political analysts point to banker Agostinho Rita, who served in the past as a finance and planning minister, as the favourite candidate. The MLSTP-PSD clinched a majority of the November vote, breaking the political impasse between a left-leaning coalition government and the President.
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