BISSAU: Escolha de um Presidente interino

ECOWAS recommended that Guinea Bissau’s national assembly hold new elections to renew its executive bureau so that the new speaker should serve as interim president and a prime minister will be selected to lead a government of national unity. “The interim president and prime minister shall not contest in the presidential elections,” ECOWAS heads of state said in their conclusion. The bloc welcomed the release of Carlos Gomes Junior, Guinea Bissau’s ex-premier and presidential election front-runner, and interim President Raimundo Pereira, who were arrested by soldiers after the April 12 coup, but did not say if they will participate in the transition. Reuters