Guinea-Bissau’s military junta adopted a 12-month transitional charter that bars the interim president and prime minister from running in the next elections, two weeks after officers staged a coup that suspended the constitution.<\/p>\n
The 29-article charter, published on Tuesday, requires presidential and legislative elections to be held at the end of the one-year transitional period, with the polling date to be set by the transitional president.<\/p>\n
Army officers in Guinea-Bissau, branding themselves the Military High Command, toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26\u00a0and installed\u00a0Major-General Horta Inta-a as interim president the following day.<\/p>\n
Ilidio Vieira Te, a civil servant and former finance minister, was named prime minister a day later.<\/p>\n
The coup came one day before the electoral commission was due to announce the results of presidential and legislative elections.<\/p>\n
The Military High Command will control legal and institutional reforms during the transition, including drafting revisions to the suspended constitution, setting up a new Constitutional Court, changing regulations for political parties and overseeing the appointment of new electoral officials, according to the charter.<\/p>\n
A 65-member National Transition Council, including 10 senior army officers representing the Military High Command, will serve as a transitional legislative body, the charter says.<\/p>\n
Guinea-Bissau, a small West African coastal nation wedged between Senegal and Guinea, has experienced repeated instability since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974, with only one president ever completing a full term in office.<\/p>\n
Following a coup in Guinea in 2021, a transitional charter stipulated that coup leader Mamady Doumbouya would not be able to run in that country’s next elections.<\/p>\n
However the country adopted a new constitution in September that dropped that provision, and Doumbouya is on the ballot in an election scheduled for December 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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