Francisco Fortunato Pires (born 24 November 1948) is a São Toméan politician.
He was President of the country's National Assembly from November 16, 1994 to April 18, 2002.
He was born in the hamlet of Canga, today a neighborhood of Cruzeiro not far from Trindade.
[1] He represented MLSTP-PSD for the district of Cantagalo, a party he campaigned from 1974 to the legislative elections in 1980.
[3] In 2003, he became judge of the Court of Auditors, a position he held until he retired in 2011, later in the year, he was nominated as member of Superior Council of Judicial Magistracy.