Africa Monitor Intelligence

Guinea-Bissau: New Electoral Map Dilutes Ethnic Voting

 
While the adaptation of political parties to this new law—which served as the justification for partially lifting restrictions on political activity—will help “clean up” the party system, the most structurally significant reform may well be the revision of the electoral law. Its primary objective is to break the hegemony of ethnic criteria in electoral outcomes and to hinder candidacies that rely exclusively on ethnic or tribal ties.

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