By RFIPosted on 04-11-2019Modified on 04-11-2019 at 20:57

It's still the blockade in Guinea-Bissau. With less than three weeks of the presidential election, the actors of the political crisis camp on their positions and, meanwhile, Bissau-Guineans are in the expectation.

President José Mário Vaz, disavowed by the international community, supports tooth and nail his new government appointed last Thursday. For its part, the government of Aristides Gomes , sacked by the president but strongly supported by the ECOWAS, says continue working normally. ECOWAS, mediator in the crisis, has convened an extraordinary summit next Friday in Niamey, Niger. Also, it is a feeling of expectation prevailing in Bissau.

In front of his banana juice, José Mariano Mario Fernandes, former athletics champion, watches a football match on television in a café in the city center. At 67, he has experienced several periods of instability in his country.

" We have two governments, two prime ministers. It's not right. We must remain very close together. In the national liberation struggle, we were very united. There are many problems here at home that must be solved by speech. We must maintain calm. I still believe that we will arrive at a peaceful solution , "he pleads.

It is a feeling of expectation prevailing in Bissau. For the time being, each side is staying the course. The government of Aristides Gomes, recognized by the international community, presents itself as the only legitimate but the president charged that of Faustino Imbali to lead the country to the elections.

Even if all the political actors agree to maintain the date of the first round of the presidential election of November 24, this taxi driver has doubts.

" Is it really safe and certain that they will go to election on November 24 ? I'm not sure of it. In my opinion, it will not be possible. This could be done next year. It is between us, Bissau-Guineans that we will be able to solve this problem, that we will be able to overcome this crisis. Otherwise, all this tires us a lot here, "he explains.

But the ECOWAS came to remind on Sunday its roadmap: no question of postponing the calendar of elections.

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