Guinea-Bissau’s Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the applications of the 12 candidates to run for president in elections to be held on 28 November, a humanitarian source told IRIN on Thursday.
The list of candidates is expected to be officially proclaimed within the next few days, according to the source, who also said the Court began examining the applications of some 2,600 candidates for seats in parliament on Wednesday.
A delegation from the Comunidad de Paises de Lingua Portuguesa (CPLP), which groups Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome/Principe in addition to Guinea-Bissau, arrived in the country on Wednesday to evaluate preparations for the elections. Following the visit, the CPLP will decide how many observers it will send to monitor the polls, the humanitarian source said.
Also in Bissau since Wednesday is a delegation from the International Federation of Human Rights. The team will spend one week assessing the human rights situation in the West African nation, whose elected president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, was overthrown in May by a section of the military.
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