By RFPosted on 31-10-2019Modified on 31-10-2019 at 12:57

In Guinea-Bissau, it is still the political imbroglio on the eve of the beginning of the campaign for the presidential election, voting scheduled on November 24. In the capital, life goes on, despite tensions between President Vaz and his former prime minister.

After the dismissal of Prime Minister Aristide Gomes by President José Mario Vaz, and the appointment of a new, residents continue to go "normally" to their occupations in the capital Bissau.

In traffic jams downtown, blue taxis get impatient, while traders have opened their shops in the central market, as usual. No particular presence of soldiers in the streets, nor in front of the presidential palace.

Normal morning bustle then, but a political situation that is not. On the one hand, a Prime Minister appointed but not recognized by the international community - the UN, the African Union, the European Union support the road map of the ECOWAS . On the other, a sacked prime minister, who denounces an illegal decision of the president. For now, his government " works normally, " according to his office.

" We are tired "

In the capital, the inhabitants speak only of this, but with distance: "One is accustomed , sighs a salesgirl of vegetables, each time it is the same, the crises follow one another, one is tired. "

While the campaign for the presidential election is supposed to begin Saturday, and that ECOWAS insists on maintaining the calendar, few posters are visible in the city. " Election or not , I will not go to vote, " slice a trader, who regrets " an eternal restart ".

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