Guinea-Bissau’s opposition chief returned from exile on Friday to submit his candidacy for the nation’s presidential election later this 12 months, an AFP reporter stated.
Domingos Simoes Pereira, a former prime minister and chief of the PAIGC celebration that led the previous Portuguese colony to independence, has spent 9 months overseas due to a perceived menace to his life and authorized points.
He arrived within the capital on Friday night time, with a major safety presence deployed across the airport.
Some supporters braved heavy rain to welcome him however he left with out commenting to ready reporters.
Final Sunday, he instructed supporters in Portugal that he was returning to steer a “democratic struggle”.
He introduced on social media that he intends to run for the presidency on November 23 and needed to satisfy the September 26 deadline to submit his utility.
Pereira has been a long-time opponent of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and stood in opposition to him on the final presidential elections.
The contested vote in 2019 noticed the inauguration of two rival heads of state. Pereira opposed the victory attributed by the electoral fee to Embalo.
Pereira and his opposition colleagues take into account that the president’s mandate, which started on February 27, 2020 for a five-year time period, has expired.
In addition to the perceived menace to his life, Pereira has been accused of plotting a coup try and corruption.
Political analyst Joao Alberto Djata stated the opposition chief’s return was “dangerous as a result of a number of accusations nonetheless weigh in opposition to him”.
Guinea-Bissau has seen 4 coups since its independence from Portugal in 1974, the final of which was in 2012. There have been 17 tried coups.
AFP
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