{"id":2231,"date":"2022-02-24T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2022-02-24T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:47:23","slug":"former-guinea-bissau-pm-barred-from-leaving-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2231\/former-guinea-bissau-pm-barred-from-leaving-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Guinea-Bissau PM barred from leaving country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira has been banned from leaving the country due to a judicial review in an investigation into an attempted coup in 2021, the Bissau prosecutor’s office told AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Pereira is a member of parliament and leader of the former ruling PAIGC party, which has dominated political life in Guinea-Bissau<\/a> since independence in 1974, was President Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s opponent in the run-off presidential election in January 2020, the results of which he is contesting.<\/p>\n

“Domingos Simoes Pereira has been under judicial supervision since Tuesday,” Bacary Biaye, the country’s public prosecutor, told AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor general’s office issued a statement on Tuesday evening announcing “a measure of coercion” against Mr. Pereira from Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This “decision prevents him from leaving the country without the authorization of the public prosecutor”, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Pereira is officially accused, while he was prime minister, of having allowed the disbursement of 5 million dollars to Guinea-Bissau businessmen to pay debts owed to local banks, according to official sources.<\/p>\n

He is accused of not having consulted the National Assembly before granting the disbursement.<\/p>\n

He is also cited in an alleged coup attempt against President Embalo on 12 April 2021, according to the official document.<\/p>\n

A meeting scheduled for Monday at the National Assembly to consider the request to lift immunity was not held due to a lack of quorum, notably because of the absence of PAIGC MPs, according to parliamentary sources.<\/p>\n

Out of 102 deputies in the National Assembly, the presidential majority has at least 53 deputies, thanks to an alliance with other parties. The PAIGC has 47 MPs.<\/p>\n

Guinea-Bissau, a small West African country with a population of about two million, has a history of coups. Since its independence from Portugal in 1974, it has experienced a series of coups, military or not, successful or abortive, the last of which was failed<\/a> on 1 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira has been banned from leaving the country due to a judicial review in an investigation into an attempted coup in 2021, the Bissau prosecutor’s office told AFP on Wednesday. Pereira is a member of parliament and leader of the former ruling PAIGC party, which has dominated political life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","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_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[405,309],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-africa","category-politics","tag-domingos-simoes-pereira","tag-guinea-bissau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}