Original reporting: Reuters Guinea-Bissau bureau. Original writing: Jessica Donati. Afrikons summary; external journalists retain their original affiliations.
Guinea-Bissau’s planned December 6 presidential and legislative elections will be delayed, Prime Minister Ilídio Vieira Té said, Reuters reports.
He did not announce a replacement date. He cited incomplete party processes and missed candidate-submission deadlines.
The postponement follows the coup that disrupted the previous election. The next confirmed electoral timetable remains an important development to follow.
The delay leaves the next electoral timetable unresolved after the disruption of the previous vote.
Source archive dated 8 Oct 2026. This article is not a live update.
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