The politics of Guinea-Bissau take place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic,with a multi-party system,wherein the President is head of state and the Prime Minister is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National People's Assembly.
Aristides Maria Pereira was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde,serving from 1975 to 1991.
Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980,when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed him. Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral,with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.
Veríssimo Correia Seabra was a Bissau-Guinean general,known for leading a coup that deposed Kumba Ialáon September 14,2003.
The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. Originally formed to peacefully campaign for independence from Portugal,the party turned to armed conflict in the 1960s and was one of the belligerents in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. Towards the end of the war,the party established a socialist one-party state,which remained intact until multi-party democracy was introduced in the early 1990s. Although the party won the first multi-party elections in 1994,it was removed from power in the 1999–2000 elections. However,it returned to office after winning parliamentary elections in 2004 and presidential elections in 2005,since which it has remained the largest party in the National People's Assembly.
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999,except for a three-day period in May 1984,and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
The Guinea-Bissau Civil War was fought from 7 June 1998 to 10 May 1999 and was triggered by an attempted coup d'état against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira led by Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané. Government forces,backed by neighbouring states,clashed with the coup leaders who had quickly gained almost total control over the country's armed forces.
Presidential elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 19 June 2005,with a second round runoff on 24 July. The elections marked the end of a transition to democratic rule after the previously elected government was overthrown in a September 2003 military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra. The result was a victory for former president and independent candidate João Bernardo Vieira.
Malam Bacai Sanhá was a Guinea-Bissau politician who was President of Guinea-Bissau from 8 September 2009 until his death on 9 January 2012. A member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC),Sanháwas President of the National People's Assembly from 1994 to 1999 and then served as acting President of Guinea-Bissau from 14 May 1999,to 17 February 2000,following the ouster of President João Bernardo Vieira. Standing as the PAIGC candidate,he placed second in the 1999–2000 presidential election as well as the 2005 presidential election before winning the June–July 2009 presidential election.
The Party for Social Renewal is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. It is one of the country's leading parties and is currently the main opposition party.
Ansumane Mané was a Bissau-Guinean soldier who led a 1998 uprising against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira,which caused a brief but bloody civil war.
Manuel Saturnino da Costa was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 26 October 1994 to 6 June 1997.
Carlos Correia was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 17 September 2015 to 12 May 2016. Previously he was Prime Minister from 27 December 1991 to 26 October 1994,from 6 June 1997 to 3 December 1998,and from 5 August 2008 to 25 December 2008.
Aristides Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 8 November 2019 until 28 February 2020. He previously served as Prime Minister from April 2018 to October 2019,and again from 2 November 2005 to 13 April 2007. He has subsequently served as President of the Republican Party for Independence and Development (PRID).
This name uses Portuguese naming customs. the first or maternal family name is Ndafa and the second or paternal family name is Kabi.
Parliamentary elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 16 November 2008. The result was a victory for the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC),which won 67 out of the 100 seats in the National People's Assembly,while the Party for Social Renewal (PRS) won 28 seats.
Raimundo Rodrigues Pereira is a Bissau-Guinean lawyer and politician who was interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 3 March 2009 to 8 September 2009 and again in 2012,following the departure of President Malam Bacai Sanháfor medical treatment abroad;he continued in that capacity after Sanha's death. Pereira was elected as President of the National People's Assembly on 22 December 2008. Pereira is a member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). He was ousted in a coup on 12 April 2012 and succeeded by Mamadu Ture Kuruma.
Francisca Maria Monteira e Silva Vaz Turpin,better known as Zinha Vaz,is a Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician. She has been a member of the National People's Assembly for several terms for the Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-BafatáMovement,as well as a presidential advisor. In 1999 she served for a brief time as mayor of the capital city Bissau. She was jailed for political reasons for three years during the 1970s and in 2003 again for several days. Recently she was ambassador to Gambia.
Cape Verde–Guinea Bissau relations refers to the bilateral relationship between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Cape Verde is an island country about 900 km north-west of Guinea-Bissau,a coastal West African country. Both were colonies of the Portuguese Empire and they campaigned together for independence with a plan for unification,but the countries separated after 1980.
The 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état was the bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau on 14 November 1980,led by Prime Minister General João Bernardo Vieira. It led to the deposition of President Luís Cabral,who held the office since 1973,while the country's War of Independence was still ongoing.
