Presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau 2012
The 1st round of the presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau 2012 took place on March 18, 2012 in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau . A second round was prevented by a military coup so that the elections could not lead to a democratic decision on the presidency. The military junta promised elections in two years.
The elections were prematurely necessary after the country's president, Malam Bacai Sanhá , died on January 9, 2012 in Paris. In this case, the Guinea-Bissau constitution provides for new elections within 90 days. Since ex-Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior received the majority, but not the majority, of the votes cast with more than 48% of the votes, a second round was planned for April 29, 2012, in which the Júnior against the runner-up of the 1. Round, Kumba Ialá . However, Ialá withdrew his candidacy after the 1st round, as he believed, like other defeated candidates, to discover election fraud in the 1st round and did not expect a manipulation-free 2nd round.
On April 12, 2012, two and a half weeks before the planned second round, parts of the Guinea-Bissau military put on a coup and arrested Carlos Gomes Júnior. A few hours before the coup, Ialá and other opposition candidates reaffirmed their intention to boycott the second election round. The military command that carried out the coup justified it by saying that the Mission of the Angolan Armed Forces to Help Reform the Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces (MISANG) intended to forcibly disempower the Guinea-Bissau military. However, the Angolan foreign minister had already announced the withdrawal of this mission three days before the coup, which was finally carried out at the end of May. The run-off election planned for April 29 did not take place and the military command reached an agreement with the opposition parties (excluding the PAIGC) to appoint Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo as interim president, who appointed Rui Duarte Barros as interim prime minister. No elections are to take place for a period of one year.
The candidates:
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Procedure for the 1st round
600,000 eligible voters were invited to vote. A spokesman for UNIOGBIS (United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau) then stated that the elections had taken place in a peaceful atmosphere. However, the murder of Colonel Samba Diallo , the former head of the military secret service in a bar in the capital Bissau shortly before midnight on election day, raised fears that there could be acts of violence by the military, as it was alleged soldiers who fired the shots at him had.
Results
| Results of the 2012 presidential election in Guinea-Bissau | |||||||
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| Political party | candidate | First round | Second round | ||||
| be right | Share of votes | be right | Share of votes | ||||
| Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde | Carlos Gomes Júnior | 154 797 | 48.97% | ||||
| Partido para a Renovação Social | Kumba Ialá | 73 842 | 23.36% | ||||
| More independent | Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo | 49 767 | 15.74% | ||||
| More independent | Henrique Pereira Rosa | 17 070 | 5.40% | ||||
| More independent | Baciro Djá | 10 298 | 3.26% | ||||
| Democratic Alliance | Vicente Fernandes | 4 396 | 1.39% | ||||
| Partido dos Trabalhadores | Aregado Mantenque Té | 3,300 | 1.04% | ||||
| PDSSG-PJ | Serifo Baldé | 1 463 | 0.46% | ||||
| More independent | Luís Nancassa | 1 174 | 0.37% | ||||
| Total (turnout 55% / ...) | 316 107 | 100.00% | ' | 100.00% | |||
| Source: African Elections Database | |||||||
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- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/us-bissau-idUSBRE83H1E920120418 , accessed on September 15, 2012.
- ↑ AFP : Guinea-Bissau leader Malam Bacai Sanha dies in Paris , accessed on April 1, 2012
- ↑ Guinea-Bissau soldiers arrest journalist, bodyguards in latest unrest in African narcostate ( Memento of April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Washington Post
- ^ Military coups in Guinea-Bissau , Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on April 13, 2012
- ↑ Público (Lisbon), April 14, 2012 and April 15, 2012
- ↑ Confirmada retirada da MISANG da Guiné-Bissau ( Memento of February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Canal-A, April 10, 2012 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Radio Cultura Angolana: MISANG deixa Guiné-Bissau no fim-de-semana ( Memento of the original of February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portuguese)
- ↑ According to the will of the coup regime, there should be no elections in the next two years . Spiegel Online April 19, 2012, accessed April 19, 2012.
- ↑ Kumba Ialá pede desculpa por ter errado no passado ( Portuguese ) In: Jornal de Angola . February 13, 2012. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Sumba Nansil: Guiné-Bissau: STJ recebe quinze intenções de candidaturas às Presidenciais ( Portuguese ) In: Portuguese News Network . Jornal Digital. February 15, 2012. Archived from the original on November 29, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Guinea-Bissau counts presidential poll votes , Al Jazeera of March 19, 2012
- ^ UN Mission Pleased With Peaceful Election in Guinea Bissau
- ↑ Guinea-Bissau votes to elect president but military overthrow feared , The Guardian of March 19, 2012
