West African regional group Ecowas said the mission to deploy to Guinea-Bissau to help resolve the election dispute left the country after the president threatened to expel the dispute.
The team was sent last month to help reach a “political consensus” about this year’s election.
Guinea – The general election of the Peso was scheduled to be held in November last year, but President Umaro Sissoco Embalo delayed them. He has since announced the new date on November 30 this year.
The opposition opposed the delay and said Embalo’s term should expire last week, despite a Supreme Court ruling recently extended his term to September.
ECOWAS said in a statement on Sunday that its team met Embalo, other politicians and civil society groups trying to reach a consensus on when the election should be held.
ECOWAS said its team was deployed to the country from February 21 to 28, along with the United Nations team from West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).
It said it has “prepare a draft draft election roadmap for 2025 and has begun to offer consent stakeholders to stakeholders.”
However, the team “departed the peso early in the morning of March 1, after the threat of threats [President] It says.
The president has not responded to the group’s allegations.
The group said it will now submit its report to the ECOWAS chair, which includes an agreement that leads to “inclusive and peaceful elections.”
Embalo was elected for five years in December 2019, and the deadlock at the end was intensified in a country that has experienced several military coups since independence in 1974.
There are two attempts to overturn Embalo, the latest in December 2023.
This led to his disbanding of the opposition-dominated parliament.
Oppositions called for a nationwide strike on Thursday, saying the president’s term is about to expire and the government deploys security forces in the capital.
A day ago, Embalo visited Moscow to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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