Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló declared in an announcement on 11th of September, 2024, he would no longer search a 2d term within the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for November 2025. This decision, which comes honest two months before the vote, adds to the political uncertainty within the West African nation.
Embaló, who took build of job in 2020, has faced a turbulent presidency marked by two tried coups, the most contemporary going on in mid-2023. Guinea-Bissau, long plagued by political instability, has witnessed a pair of coups since gaining independence in 1974.
The president didn’t provide detailed reasons for his decision to step down, merely pointing out that it changed into as soon as at the inquire of of of his wife. All through his tenure, Embaló twice dissolved the nation’s Parliament, but struggled to reach a majority to push through fundamental reforms, including a proposed constitutional switch aimed at revising the semi-presidential diagram.
While declining to name a doable successor, he dominated out his fundamental political opponents, Domingos Simões Pereira, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, and Braima Camara, pointing out, “None of them will change me.”
In an interview to journal JA, Emballo talked about he didn’t exclude reconsidering his decision.
