The coalition led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) has won 54 of the 102 seats in Parliament, i.e. an absolute majority.
In Guinea-Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo will now have to govern in cohabitation with the opposition. The opposition, grouped within the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition, has obtained 54 of the 102 seats in Parliament in the June 4, 2023legislative elections.
Under the country’s Constitution, the party with the majority in the National Assembly is automatically the one to appoint the Prime Minister. The Head of State therefore agreed to appoint the President of the PAIGC and leader of the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition, Domingo Simoes Pereira, known as DSP, as Head of Government.
These seventh legislative elections in the history of Guinea-Bissau’s young democracy were a real debacle for the ruling party, which only managed to win 29 seats.
With 12 MPs, the Social Renovation Party (PRS) came third. It is followed by the Parti des Travailleurs Guineens (PTG), which managed to elect 6 deputies, and the APU-PDGB, led by Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam, with one seat. The latter had tipped the balance in the second round in favor of the 2019 presidential candidate Emballo. The current president was then facing his future Prime Minister, DSP.
Some 900,000 Guinea-Bissau voters were called to the polls to elect new MPs for a five-year term. The vote, which took place peacefully, was supervised by 230 international observers.
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