The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, decided this Monday to dissolve Parliament, after the clashes between security forces on Thursday and Friday, which he considered a coup d’état.
The President of the Republic made the decision after a meeting of the Council of State.
Sissoco Embaló considered “a coup d’état” the fact that the National Guard took the Minister of Finance, Suleimane Seide, and the Secretary of State for Finance, António Monteiro, from the cells of the Judicial Police on Thursday night.
As a result of this event, armed confrontations occurred between the National Guard and the Presidency battalion, which were resolved with the intervention of the Military Police and which culminated in the arrest of the commander of the National Guard, Vitor Tchongo.
Source: TSF
