Guinea-Bissau sets presidential, legislative elections for November 2025

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The presidential and legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau will take place on 23 November. A week earlier than the date of 30 November initially announced. This is indicated by a decree of the President. Umaro Sissoco Embalo had convened Friday, 7 March 2025 a meeting with parties, while the country is in a political crisis. Meeting boycotted by the main opposition coalition, which considers that the term of office of the Head of State has ende…

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While the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has not yet definitively amortized the shock of the withdrawal of the three member countries of the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES), it has yet to face a new political storm. The President of Guinea-Bissau, who was its current President from 2022 to 2004, refuses to leave power and defies even the subregional organization that cannot react to save what remains of its credibility. How…

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Guinea-Bissau sets presidential, legislative elections for November 2025

President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo announced on Friday that he has issued a decree setting Nov. 23, 2025, as the date for presidential and legislative elections in the West African country. The decision was made following consultations with the government, political parties, and the National Electoral Commission, according to the presidential decree. Under Guinea-Bissau’s constitution, the presidential term is set at five years, wit…

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Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the President of Guinea-Bissau, organized a meeting this Friday with the country's political parties in order to find a solution to the constitutional crisis that is shaking the country, marked by an extension of the holding of elections in the country. This meeting, which... The article Bissau: forced by the opposition, Embalo sets the date of the early elections appeared first on ledjely.

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Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister demands a public apology from ECOWAS following a mission deemed disrespectful. This tension comes after [...]

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The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, called on the country's political parties on Friday for a dialogue to try to find a way out of the crisis while the main opposition coalition, which boycotted the meeting, estimated that its mandate had expired since 27 February.