{"id":58433,"date":"2020-01-13T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58433"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:04:10","slug":"guinea-bissau-supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-presidential-election-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58433","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau: Supreme Court rejects challenge to presidential election result"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2020\/01\/13\/488765.JPG\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO Umaro Cissoko Embalo chats with supporters and members of his presidential campaign team after the results of the first round of the election held on November 24 in a hotel lobby in Bissau Guinea-Bissau November 27 2019. REUTERSChristophe Van Der Perre\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">President-elect Umaro Cissoko Embalo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BISSAU, Jan 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s Supreme Court rejected a challenge against Umaro Cissoko Embalo&#8217;s victory in last month&#8217;s election run-off by the defeated candidate, who complained of fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling confirms a surprise election win for Embalo, a 47-year-old former prime minister and ex-army general. He will replace outgoing Jose Mario Vaz, who was eliminated in the first round of voting in November after a five-year term marked by political dysfunction and corruption allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling said runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira, the candidate of the majority party in parliament, should have first filed his complaint with the national electoral commission, which declared Embalo the winner with 53% of votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pereira said the Dec. 29 election was marred by fraud, alleging that votes surpassed the number of enrolled voters at some polling places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electoral commission denied this, and African observers praised the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaz is the first Guinea-Bissau president to have completed a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974. In that time, the country has seen nine coups or attempted coups. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Umaro Cissoko Embalo BISSAU, Jan 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s Supreme Court rejected a challenge against Umaro Cissoko Embalo&#8217;s victory in last month&#8217;s election run-off by the defeated candidate, who complained of fraud. The ruling confirms a surprise election win for Embalo, a 47-year-old former prime minister and ex-army general. He will replace outgoing Jose [&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\/58433"}],"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=58433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}