Former prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira is seen as a frontrunner by political observers
President Jose Mario Vaz will be the first democratically elected president to have completed a full termThe vote will pit President Jose Mario Vaz against old rival and former prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira. Picture: REUTERS/AFOLABI SOTUNDE
Pereira, who has styled himself as a moderniser, is seen as the front-runner by political observers in Guinea Bissau and internationally. The next president will inherit difficulties caused in part by the political system, in which the majority party or coalition appoints the government but the president has the power to dismiss it in certain circumstances.
Ecowas has played a prominent role in trying to resolve the crisis, imposing economic sanctions on people it judged to be undermining efforts to end the impasse in 2018, including members of Vaz’s faction and his son.
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