Aristides Raimundo Lima (born August 31, 1955) is a former Cape Verdean politician and was the 4th president of the National Assembly from 2001 to 2011.
[1][3] In 1976, he completed a course at the School of Journalism in Friedrichshagen, Berlin and worked as a journalist at Voz di Povo from 1976 to 1978.
He later attended at the Amílcar Cabral Institute and the National Historic Archives.
[1][3] At a party congress in August 1993, he replaced Pedro Pires and Lima became General Secretary of PAICV.
He ran for elections in 2011 as a PAICV member, he was third and received 44,648 votes or 27.71% in the first round.