The President of the Guinean Parliament, Domingos Simões Pereira, convened on Wednesday the 13th a plenary meeting of the body, which is currently dissolved by order of the country’s president, according to a statement from the body to which Lusa had access.
In the document, Simões Pereira calls on deputies to appear in parliament so that the plenary session interrupted on the 4th can be resumed, and also calls on the government to guarantee the conditions of inviolability of space, according to the rules.
On the 4th, the plenary session was interrupted when the dissolution of parliament was announced by decree of the President of Guinea, Umaro Sissoko Embalo.
The President referred to the existence of a serious institutional crisis in the country as a result of armed clashes between elements of the National Guard and the Armed Forces that had occurred a few days earlier, a situation that Sissoko Embalo regarded as an attempted coup.
The Guinean head of state held parliament responsible for the institutional crisis and said he decided to dissolve it in order to “prevent the country from entering into a new civil war being prepared” in that institution.
Since the announcement of the dissolution of parliament, the head of this body, Domingos Simões Pereira, has repeatedly repeated that the decision of the head of state has no legal force in the light of the Constitution of Guinea-Bissau.
Article 94 of the Guinean Constitution states that parliament cannot be dissolved within 12 months after legislative elections, recalls Simões Pereira, emphasizing that the last act of elections took place on June 4.
The parliamentary premises in Bissau have been occupied since the 4th by security forces, which, according to Pereira, are unknown to their services in the light of Guinean law.
In an interview with the media, the parliament president says that if MPs are not allowed access to the facilities on Wednesday, the situation will constitute “an effective institutional coup by the military.”
In his note calling for the resumption of the session on Wednesday, Domingos Simões Pereira calls on the government to restore the security body, which by law must be under the leadership of the president of parliament.
Following the dissolution of parliament, Guinea’s president said the government led by Prime Minister Geraldo Martins would remain in power until a new executive was formed, which he promised this week.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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