According to provisional results released by the National Electoral Commission on Wednesday, the party’s victory is shy of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
With 47 seats, the PAIGC is followed respectively by the Movement for Democratic Alternation (MADEM) with twenty-seven (27) elected and the Social Renewal Party (PRS) which secured twenty-one (21).
The APU-PDGB party of Nuno Gomes Na Biam is nestled in fourth place with five seats.
The Union for Change (MU) and the New Democracy Party (NDP) each won a seat in the National Assembly.
The PAIGC, which has dominated Guinea-Bissau’s political scene since independence, has won the legislative elections without holding an absolute majority in Parliament.
In the streets of the capital Bissau, demonstrations are apparently taking place in a democratic atmosphere, the APA correspondent could witness.
Some political parties, contacted by APA following the publication of the provisional results, deferred their reaction to a later date.