The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, promised to schedule new legislative elections before the rainy season, which begins in June. The statesman guarantees that the presidential elections will take place in November 2025. The President dissolved parliament in December last year and there is still no concrete date for new elections. “But it is not possible not to organize the elections before the rainy season”, he stated, on the sidelines of a visit to the Bissau Central Market. According to Lusa, the Head of State ruled out the possibility of combining the legislative and presidential elections, returning to speaking of November 2025 for the presidential elections, a deadline contested by those who argue that they should take place at the end of 2024, before the end of the current presidential term. Sissoco Embaló said that he has the decree ready to set the date for the legislative elections and that it is just waiting for the National Elections Commission (CNE) to complete the update of the electoral rolls and propose a date. The President also indicated that he is “talking to the international community to ask for financial help” for the new electoral act, the result of the dissolution of parliament with a majority of the PAI- Terra Ranka coalition, led by PAIGC, writes to Lusa. Some of the coalition parties have already made new alliances, as has the President of the Republic’s party, MADEM- G15, which joined the Assembly of United People – Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau (APU-PDGB), of former Prime Minister Nuno Nabiam, who asked for the resignation of Special Advisor to the President. The head of State also commented on reports of attacks and threats to journalists, responding that “they should be proud of the President of the Republic they have”. Source:O País
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