Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea Bissau 11/26/2025
The West African Country of Guinea Bissau held presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 23rd of November, 2025. Prior to election day, the illegally established Supreme Court disqualified the African Party of Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) candidates by inventing the technicality that the PAIGC had not submitted its candidates before the due date. This illegal exclusion led the PAIGC to endorse the candidacy of Fernando Dias da Costa, Social Renewal Party (PRS) President, and backed by the Inclusive Patriot Alliance (API), Big Calabash and the Terra Ranka Coalition, led by Domingos Simões Pereira of the PAIGC.
Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Ebalo Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election, garnered 44% of the vote. These results were confirmed and signed today, 26 November and are due to be officially proclaimed on tomorrow, 27 November, by the National Electoral Commission.
In an attempt to prevent the announcement of Sissoco's defeat, military forces loyal to him attempted to invade several Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE), but were unable due to the Masses of People who surrounded the CRE Headquarters.
On 26 November, after Sissoco himself announced to several news outlets, such as Jeune Afrique, that he was the victim of a coup, the same group of soldiers loyal to Sissoco announced on National Television that they had “..taken Total Control of the Country..”. Shots have been fired in the streets of the Capitol City, Bissau. Domingos Simões Pereira, President of the African Party of Independence of Guinea Bissau (PAIGC), and President of the National People's Assembly (ANP) has been arrested by these same military forces loyal to Embalo Sissoco. Sissoco’s whereabouts remain unknown.
The All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) and our sister Party, the PAIGC, view these military actions as a futile attempt to keep Sissoco in power by pretending to be the victim of a military coup, which Sissoco himself orchestrated after falsely proclaiming himself the winner of the elections. The revolting military forces intervened when both candidates claimed to win the election, causing a “crisis of uncertainty”. Their real intent is to prevent the proclamation of Fernando Dias da Costa and his PAIGC backers, the winners of Sunday's election.
The AAPRP calls upon all international institutions, regional bodies, progressive and peace-loving People, to join the masses of People in Guinea Bissau to demand:
The immediate release of Domingos Simões Pereira and all citizens who have been illegally detained
That the military harm no one
That all military troops return to the barracks
That the electoral process be allowed to go forward with the official proclamation of the vote count and announcement of the winners of Sunday’s elections.
We soundly condemn the desperate attempt by Sissoco and his imperialist masters to once again overthrow the popular will of the Guinean masses and thwart the sovereignty of Guinea Bissau.
Central Committee
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
Image: A woman casts her vote during the presidential and legislative elections, in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Copyright © africanews. The Associated Press.
