The presidential campaign in Guinea-Bissau kicked off this weekend without the main opposition party.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s 860,000 voters will head to the polls on 23 November to elect a president and 102 parliament members. They will have to choose between 12 presidential candidates, including current president Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3, who appears as a favourite.<\/p>\n
In an unprecedented move, the coalition led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)\u00a0has been excluded from the presidential and legislative elections.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s supreme court ruled that the PAIGC and its candidate\u00a0Domingos Sim\u00f5es Pereira\u00a0had submitted their nomination too late.<\/p>\n
Pereira is a former prime minister and President Embal\u00f3\u2019s foremost rival. His party won the last legislative election in 2023<\/p>\n
The upcoming vote will be the first general election without PAIGC since Guinea-Bissau’s independence from Portugal in 1974.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s political stability is a crucial issue in the vote to come.<\/p>\n
Several senior military officers were arrested on Friday on accusations of trying to stage a coup. The army said it had thwarted an\u00a0\u201cattempt to subvert the constitutional order.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sad episode, which involves some general and senior officers of our Armed Forces, jeopardises the peace and stability so desired for socio-economic development and the attraction of foreign investment,\u201d\u00a0the armed forces General Staff said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Guinea-Bissau has gone through four coup and 17 coup attempts since 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The presidential campaign in Guinea-Bissau kicked off this weekend without the main opposition party. The country\u2019s 860,000 voters will head to the polls on 23 November to elect a president and 102 parliament members. They will have to choose between 12 presidential candidates, including current president Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3, who appears as a favourite. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,33,27],"tags":[405,309,1187],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-domingos-simoes-pereira","tag-guinea-bissau","tag-umaro-sissoco-embalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}