Alamara Nhassé
Alamara Nhassé (b. 1957) is a Guinea-Bissau politician, who was Prime Minister from 2001 to 2002. He held that position from 9 December 2001 to 17 November 2002. Nhassé is a member of the Social Renewal Party (PRS).
Nhassé is an agricultural expert, who was trained in Cuba and in the Soviet Union. First, Nhassé was Minister for Agriculture. Under Faustino Imbali, he became Minister for the Interior after Artur Sanhá was deposed on August 29, 2001. After Imbali was also deposed, Nhassé became Prime Minister on December 9, 2001. On January 15, the party convention of the PRS elected him president of the party. A government crisis then ended his time in office and forced his government to be dissolved. On November 17, 2002, Mário Pires was elected Prime Minister. On November 15, 2002, Alamara Nhassé resigned as party chairman.
In the 2005 presidental election Nhassé supported the candidate João Bernardo Vieira. After Vieira's election, Nhassé called for Carlos Gomes Júnior to resign as Prime Minister, who then lost his parliamentary basis after 14 of 45 parliamentary delegates from Gomes' PAIGC left the party. Since Aristides Gomes was nominated as Prime Minister in November 2005 the PRS is represented by 5 ministers in the government.