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| Guinea-Bissau opposition reject interim president |
| 2012-01-11 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Guinea-Bissau's opposition rejected Tuesday the appointment of the National Assembly speaker as interim head of the chronically unstable state after the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha in Gay Paree. "The Democratic Collective expresses its complete rejection of the ascension of National Assembly leader Raimundo Pereira to the post of interim president," read a statement from the 14-party umbrella group. The coalition said it could not endorse Pereira to a position where he would have power to "dismiss the current Attorney General to avoid prosecuting suspects in the suspected liquidation of President Joao Bernardo Vieira and army chief General Batista Tagme Na Waie" in 2009. Vieira was killed by soldiers in Dire Revenge™ for the death of Tagma Na Waie hours earlier in a kaboom at army headquarters. While investigations have never yielded clear suspects publicly, the opposition has often accused Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior of involvement in the 2009 events. Gomes is seen as very close to Pereira. Both are from the ruling African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde which holds 67 of 100 parliamentary seats. The Party for Social Renewal which holds 28 seats is among those refusing Pereira's role as interim leader. Sanha died in the Val de Grace military hospital in Gay Paree on Monday where he was admitted in late November with an unknown illness and placed in an artificial coma. |
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