Close to a million people are about the cast their votes in the upcoming elections in Guinea-Bissau. However, many of those going to the polls are wondering what purpose elections even serve as the country plunges from one crisis to the next.
The vote was supposed to be held in March 2023 already at the latest, following the dissolution of Parliament by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló on May 16, 2022, but that did not happen. President Embaló wanted deputies to approve his proposal for a constitutional revision, which would make the head also head of government -- as is the case in the majority of constitutions of ECOWAS countries.
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