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2023 Guinea-Bissau Legislative Election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 4 June 2023. Incumbent president Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved the parliament on 16 May 2022, accusing deputies of corruption and "unresolvable" differences between the National People's Assembly and other government branches. The result was a victory for the opposition coalition Inclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, which won 54 of the 102 seats. Electoral system The 102 members of the National People's Assembly are elected by two methods; 100 by closed list proportional representation from 27 multi-member constituencies and two from single-member constituencies representing expatriate citizens in Africa and Europe. Results Aftermath President Embalo dissolved the opposition-controlled parliament on 4 December 2023, saying an "attempted coup" had prevented him from returning home from COP28 climate conference. In response to the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Guinea-Bissau Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 10 March 2019. They were originally scheduled for 18 November 2018 following an ECOWAS brokered agreement between President José Mário Vaz and the opposition in April 2018, but the electoral census was not completed until 20 November, and Prime Minister Aristides Gomes subsequently proposed 16 December, 30 December, or 27 January 2019 as possible alternative dates. The election date was settled following a presidential decree issued in December 2018. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) won 47 of the 102 seats and remained the largest party. Although its loss of ten seats resulted in a hung parliament, pre-election agreements with the Assembly of the People United (five seats), the New Democracy Party (Guinea-Bissau), New Democracy Party (one seat) and the Union for Change (one seat) gave the PAIGC-led coalition a six-seat majority in the National People's Assembly (Guinea-Bissau), National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party (Guinea-Bissau)
The Social Democratic Party (, PSD) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The party was established in 1995 by Joaquim Baldé. In the 1999–2000 general elections Bald was nominated as the party's presidential candidate, but finished eighth with 2.3% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections, the party won three seats in the National People's Assembly.Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p325 Prior to the 2004 parliamentary elections the party joined the Electoral Union alliance, which won two seats. It did not contest the 2005 presidential elections, but supported runner-up Malam Bacai Sanhá. In 2007 António Samba Baldé became party leader, and in the parliamentary elections the following year, the party failed to win a seat. The PSD did not nominate a candidate for the 2009 or 2012 presidential elections. In the 2014 general elections it did not put forward a candidate for president, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manifest Party Of The People
The Manifest Party of the People (, PMP) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The PMP was established in 2003 by Faustino Imbali.Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p229 The party received 0.8% of the vote in the 2004 parliamentary elections, failing to win a seat in the National People's Assembly. Imbali was the party's candidate for the 2005 presidential elections, but received just 0.52% of the vote, finishing tenth in a field of 13 candidates. The party did not contest elections in 2008, 2009 or 2012, but returned to active politics when it ran in the 2014 parliamentary elections, receiving 0.7% of the vote and failing to win a seat. It received 0.1% of the vote in the 2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Social Democratic Party
The United Social Democratic Party (, PUSD) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The party was established on 30 May 1991 and legalised on 6 June 1992.Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p328 Victor Saúde Maria was its initial leader. In the 1994 general elections Saúde Maria finished seventh in the presidential elections with 2% of the vote, and the party failed to win a seat in the National People's Assembly. Saúde Maria died on 25 October 1999, and a subsequent leadership crisis prevented it from contesting the 1999 general elections. Former prime minister Francisco Fadul was elected as the president of the PUSD on 18 December 2002 at a party convention in Bissau.''Political Parties of the World'' (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 272. In the 2004 parliamentary elections the party received 17.6% of the vote and won 17 out of 100 seats in the Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party For Independence And Development
The Republican Party for Independence and Development (, PRID) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau led by António Afonso Té. History The party was established in March 2008 as a breakaway from the PAIGC who supported President João Bernardo Vieira.Last elections IPU Led by , it finished third in the popular vote in the 2008 parliamentary elections, winning three seats in the National People's Assembly. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Unity Party (Guinea-Bissau)
The National Unity Party (, PUN) was a political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The party was established by Idrissa Djaló on 26 July 2001.Bogdan Szajkowski (2005) ''Political Parties of the World'', p273 In the 2004 parliamentary elections, the party received 1.46% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In the 2005 presidential election, Djaló finished eighth with 0.8% of the vote. The party boycotted the 2008 parliamentary elections, with Djaló claiming that "the ballot will not resolve any of the persistent great problems in the country".Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p328 It did not contest presidential elections in 2009 or 2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ..., but supported the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Movement (Guinea-Bissau)
The Social Democratic Movement (; MDS), often shortened to just the Democrats (), is a far-right political party in Bolivia founded in 2013 for the movement for greater autonomy for the eastern departments of the '' Media Luna''. History Ruben Costas, governor of Santa Cruz department, announced the party's formation in March 2013. Twenty leaders gathered to launch the party in April 2013, including Costas, Beni governor Carmelo Lens and his predecessor Ernesto Suarez, Senator Bernard Gutierrez ( PPB-Cochabamba), and Cochabamba council member Ninoska Lazarte. The launch was hosted by Savina Cuéllar, the former prefect of Chuquisaca Department, who as of April 2013, was under house arrest facing charges for the 24 May 2008, violence in Sucre. After a failed petition to legally merge the registration of Costas' Truth and Social Democracy (VERDES) party, Renewing Freedom and Democracy (Libertad y Democracia Renovadora; Líder), and Popular Consensus in June, the Supreme Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African National Congress (Guinea-Bissau)
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as President of South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa, the incumbent national president, has served as president of the ANC since 18 December 2017. Founded on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein as the South African Native National Congress, the organisation was formed to advocate for the rights of black South Africans. When the National Party government came to power in 1948, the ANC's central purpose became to oppose the new government's policy of institutionalised apartheid. To this end, its methods and means of organisation shifted; its adoption of the techniques of mass politics, and the swelling of its membership, culminated in the Defiance Campaign of civil disobedience in 1952–53. The ANC was banned by the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Democracy Party (Guinea-Bissau)
The New Democracy Party (, PND) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The party was established by Mamadú Iaia Djaló in 2007. It won a single seat in the National People's Assembly in the 2008 elections. In the 2009 presidential elections it nominated Djaló as its candidate. He finished fourth with 3% of the vote. In the 2014 elections * 2014 United Nations Security Council election 16 October 2014 Africa * 2014 Algerian presidential election 17 April 2014 * 2014 Botswana general election 24 October 2014 * 2014 Comorian presidential election 21 February and 10 April 2014 * 2014 ... the party won a single seat in the National People's Assembly, whilst Djaló finished fifth in the presidential election with 5% of the vote. CNE References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resistance Of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement
The Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement (, RGB-MB) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. Once the main opposition organisation in the country, it is today a minor party without parliamentary representation. History The party was established as the Bafatá Movement in Portugal on 27 July 1986 by Domingos Fernandes Gomes after his childhood friend Viriato Rodrigues Pa was executed along with five others accused of attempting to overthrow the regime of João Bernardo Vieira.Peter Karibe Mendy (2013) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau'', Scarecrow Press, p359 With the organisation gaining support from the large population of expatriate Guineans in Portugal, the PAIGC government started attempts to assassinate the RGB leadership. In 1991 it adopted its current name. When multi-party politics was introduced in the early 1990s, the 1994 general elections saw the RGB become the largest opposition party to the PAIGC in the National People's Assembly, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assembly Of The People United
The Assembly of the People United–Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau (, APU-PDGB) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. History The party was established in November 2014 by Nuno Gomes Nabiam following the April–May 2014 general elections, in which he was runner-up in the presidential contest.Formation of the APU Party APU-PDGB Prior to the 2019 parliamentary elections the party signed a coalition agreement with the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
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Guinean Workers' Party
The Guinean Workers' Party (PTG ; ) is a Guinea-Bissau political party, founded in 2021 by then-time Minister of the Interior Botche Candé. History The Guinean Workers' Party was formed in December 2021 by Botche Candé, a former member of the Party for Social Renewal (PRS) and Minister of the Interior in the government of Nuno Gomes Nabiam. It is made up of leaders and executives from different political formations such as Mama Saliu Lambá, former first vice-president of the Assembly of the People United (APU-PDGB), as well as members of the Madem G15 party. The party held its founding congress in the Bissau Bissau () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. it had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, its administr ... on 16–17 December 2021, after which Botche Candé was elected President of the PTG. In 2023, the party participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
