AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoPresidential Vote Countdown: São Tomé and Príncipe will elect a new president on Sunday, with parliamentary elections due at the end of September, as the small Gulf of Guinea state draws bigger international attention amid its April 2024 military cooperation deal with Russia. Election Stakes & Candidates: The Constitutional Court validated five presidential bids on 16 June, including incumbent Carlos Vila Nova, former PM Jorge Bom Jesus, ADI leader Nito D’Abreu, and jurists Miques João Bonfim and Eugénio Tiny; one candidacy was rejected, and the registered electorate is 142,298 (121,771 on the islands, 20,525 in the diaspora). Regional Monitoring: Angola’s CNE chief leads ROJAE-CPLP observers in São Tomé and Príncipe, meeting candidates and civil society and planning polling-station and results monitoring. Independence Day Politics: President Carlos Vila Nova used the 51st independence anniversary to call for unity and to focus on economic and social challenges ahead of the vote. Oil Licensing Setback: São Tomé and Príncipe reportedly rejected all bids in its latest offshore licensing round, citing insufficient bidder diversity, leaving Petrobras and Oranto as the only applicants.
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