{"id":224325,"date":"2023-06-09T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=224325"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:59:45","slug":"guinea-bissaus-opposition-coalition-wins-majority-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=224325","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s opposition coalition wins majority in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/AP23155455320528-1686253292.jpg?resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"People line up to cast their ballots in Guinea-Bissau's legislative elections in Bissau Sunday June 4, 2023.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BISSAU, June 9 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; The PAI Terra Ranka coalition, an opposition group led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, has won Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s parliamentary elections, taking 54 of the 102 seats at stake, according to provisional results released Thursday by the National Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Alternation came second with 29 seats, followed by the Party for Social Renewal with 12 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Workers&#8217; Party, led by Agriculture Minister Botche Cande and taking part in an election for the first time, gained six seats, against one for Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam&#8217;s Assembly of the People United-Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 900,000 voters were called to the polls to elect new members of parliament for a five-year term. The vote was conducted peacefully under the supervision of 230 international observers.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISSAU, June 9 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; The PAI Terra Ranka coalition, an opposition group led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, has won Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s parliamentary elections, taking 54 of the 102 seats at stake, according to provisional results released Thursday by the National Electoral Commission. President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224327,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325\/revisions\/224327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}