UmarSissoco Embaló had announced that he would not run for a second term after following his wife’s advice.

“It is a decision taken by listening to the opinion of my wife, who is my first family,” Embaló said at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by him.

Speaking today at the meeting of the National Council of a wing of the Movement for Democratic Alternation (Madem G-15), which is loyal to him, Umaro Sissoco Embalo admitted, in front of an enthusiastic audience of militants of that party, that he could be a candidate.

“If yesterday [last Tuesday] I said that I would not reapply for a second term, if you understand that I should do so, I am at your disposal. I’m not over you,” Embalo noted.

The politician stressed that he is available to Guinean citizens to face any threats.

“If you understand that I am still the solution, I will be ahead of you,” said Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

Madem G15, a party founded in 2018 by dissidents of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), is currently divided into two groups.

The group of militants gathered today in the National Council, in one of the hotels in Bissau, says it is available to support a second term of Umaro Sissoco Embalo and another group is against this intention of the politician.

The group meeting today is led by Guinea-Bissau independence veteran Satu Camará, and the other group is led by businessman Braima Camará, who considers himself a legitimate leader because he was elected at an ordinary congress in 2022 for a four-year term.

The disputes within Madem are in court awaiting a final decision that should be known after the judicial vacation, next October.

Umaro Sissoco Embalo announced in his speech that he accepts the distinction made to him by the group of militants from Madem who consider him honorary president of the party.

“I am grateful for the distinction they made me to be the honorary president of Madem and in the same way that I am honorary president of all political parties in Guinea-Bissau,” said the Guinean head of state.

Widely criticized in the country by politicians and members of civil society, who recall that the functions of President of the Republic are incompatible with those of another nature, Umaro Sissoco Embalo said that no one takes away his right to be a founding member of Madem.