Partido para a Renovação Social
The Partido para a Renovação Social ( PRS ) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau .
founding
After the approval of political parties alongside the longstanding unity party PAIGC , Kumba Ialá, who was excluded from the PAIGC in 1989 , founded the PRS on January 14, 1992. Ialá ran in 1994 in the first free presidential election and achieved 21.88% of the votes in the first ballot and lost on August 7, 1994 in the second ballot with 47.98% against the president João Bernardo Vieira, who has ruled since 1980 .
Ruling party
After the fall of Vieira, the interim government under Malam Bacai Sanhá called new elections. Ialá came again and this time reached 38.81% of the votes in the first ballot and won on January 16, 2000 with around 72% against Sanhá. The PRS became the strongest party in the November 1999 general election with 38 of the 102 seats. The PRS reign was overshadowed by coup attempts and the Ansumané Mané rebellion . Ialá's increasingly authoritarian government ended on September 14, 2003 with a coup by the Army Chief of Staff , Veríssimo Correia Seabra . The military government appointed the PRS General Secretary, Artur Sanhá , as Prime Minister of a transitional government on September 28, 2003, and Henrique Pereira Rosa as President.
Opposition party
In the parliamentary elections in March 2004, the PAIGC with 31.5% of the vote and 45 out of 102 seats prevailed as the strongest party and formed a new government, the PRS achieved second place with 24.8% and 35 seats. Ialá had been released from prison shortly before the elections. He was nominated again by his party for the 2005 presidential elections, but this time dropped out in the first round with around 25% of the vote. The former presidents Malam Bacai Sanhá and Vieiras contested the second ballot, with the latter winning on July 24, 2005. First, Ialá and his party protested against the result of the first ballot. Ialá himself later accepted the result and spoke out in favor of Vieira before the second ballot, while his party friends continued to demonstrate.
The crisis of the PAIGC, from which 14 of its 45 MPs broke away after Vieiras took office on October 1, 2005, made the PRS the strongest force in parliament.