📋 Tender Overview
The presidential elections of Guinea Bissau began on November 24 with 12 candidates competing for the presidential chair according to the figures of Jos Pedro Sambu president of the National Electoral Commission. 761676 voters the same number as in the March 10 parliamentary elections are expected to have participated in Sundays elections in 3139 polling stations throughout the country and abroad.Among the 12 candidates is the outgoing president Jos Mario Vaz an independent candidate who was excluded from the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde PAIGC and Domingos Simoes Pereira candidate of the PAIGC.The election is considered the last step to end the political crisis that broke out in 2015 between Vaz and his main political rival Pereira.Vazs mandate was scheduled to end at the end of June but the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS agreed that he would remain President of Guinea-Bissau until the presidential elections.To guarantee order in the country during the elections some 6500 defense and security agents have been mobilized. From midnight on Sunday the circulation of motor vehicles is prohibited and all air land and sea borders will remain closed.About 200 observers from the African Union including the Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea accredited to the African Union Crisantos Obama Ondo the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ECOWAS and the United States as well as 422 civil society observers follow Very closely the electoral process.If none of the candidates reaches more than 50 of the votes in the first round a second round is scheduled for December 29.
