Foundational Manifesto of Atlantic Sovereignty

📜 Preamble

We have reached the critical point in history where continuing as we are would mean abdicating the right to exist with dignity. When repetition becomes decay, and hope turns into cynicism, the only legitimate way forward is refoundation—serene, conscious, and irrevocable.

This Manifesto is the solemn declaration of a people who refuse to be orphans of their own history, prisoners of institutional failure, or slaves to colonial structures inherited in new forms.

We rise not against a particular system, but in favor of a new order, moral, political, spiritual, and functional. Here is born the Atlantic Sovereignty.

⛓ The Legacy of Colonialism and Historical Wounds

For centuries, the land and people of São Tomé and Príncipe were exploited as resources and reduced to geopolitical objects. The political independence gained in 1975, though courageous, did not break with the colonial structure of power culture.

Authoritarian centralism, marginalization of awareness, instrumentalization of institutions, and the emptying of real sovereignty persisted.

📉 The Failure of One-Party Rule and Democratic Transition

The one-party period (1975–1990) degenerated into a closed state, without internal criticism, plurality, or functional freedom. The democratic transition, initiated in 1991, generated hopes that quickly turned into successive disappointments.

Over 15 government collapses in the first 20 years of pluralist democracy, chronic instability, absence of a coherent national project, partisan capture of institutions, and disintegration of the sense of state marked this period.

⚠️ State Failure and Sovereignty Collapse

The state of São Tomé and Príncipe has become functionally bankrupt: dependent on foreign donations, vulnerable to permanent political crises, and incapable of providing justice, security, healthcare, or basic prosperity to its population.

National sovereignty has, in practice, been alienated. People vote without power. Governments govern without direction. The Constitution is celebrated but not felt.

🚀 The Answer: A Total Refoundation

This is not about reforming the current regime—but about transcending it with dignity. Refoundation is not only political: it is spiritual, philosophical, institutional, identity-based, and functional.

The proposal of Atlantic Sovereignty is to found a new regime based on the principle of Meritocratic Sovereignty, structured harmonocratically, centered on human dignity and the full realization of the Santomean people.

🎯 Statement of Purpose

We proclaim Atlantic Sovereignty as:

• A new political order based on merit, harmony, and justice;
• A conscious state, morally legitimate and functionally elevated;
• A civilizational pact with the future, rooted in the history and soul of the people;
• A new vision for Africa and the Lusophone world, showing that it is possible to govern with wisdom, dignity, and beauty.

This Manifesto is the first step of a serene but irrevocable march toward the reconstruction of power, hope, and collective plenitude.

We invite all sons and daughters of the Nation, wherever they may be, to join this historic journey.

Rise, Atlantic Sovereignty. Your time has come.