The African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) repudiated the resolution of the Military Command that determines the change of party headquarters located less than 500 meters from sovereign bodies.
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18/09/2026
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The official position was adopted on Thursday during a virtual meeting of the Permanent Committee, chaired by the party leader Domingos Simões Pereira, currently in Portugal.
In the document released by the Guinean media, the PAIGC classified the measure as “absolutely illegal” and maintained that the Military Command “deserves legitimacy and legal basis” to issue such determinations, stressing that any eviction proceedings or decisions are the exclusive competence of the judicial bodies.
On Monday, the High Military Command, which led the coup d'état of November 26, issued a deliberation in which it gave seven days for political parties to move away to a distance of 500 meters from the headquarters of sovereign organs, hospitals, military units, paramilitaries or diplomatic representations.
The PAIGC and the Movement for Democratic Alternance (Madem G15) have their national headquarters close to the palace of the Guinean Presidency in Bissau.
Despite stressing that political training has not yet been officially notified of the measure, the PAIGC recalls that under Law No 3/91 of 7 May, both the national headquarters and the regional delegations are part of the party’s “legitimate heritage”.
According to the Permanent Commission’s deliberation, the building of the national headquarters, located in National Heroes Square, “was given to the PAIGC definitively and free” after national independence, “as a recognition of its historical role in the struggle for liberation”.
The PAIGC accuses the former Guinean President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, of “pretending to dislodge” the political force of his “historical house”, pointing to the resolution of the High Military Command as the instrument designed to accomplish this purpose.
The Permanent Committee of the PAIGC has approved a set of guidelines for its immediate action, which involves resorting to legal means to safeguard the heritage and to hold the Military Command responsible for any losses of “historical documents” at the national headquarters.
The party also instructed the national secretariat to find “provisional spaces” for the technical functioning of the preparatory committee of the XI Congress.
The body also called for the vigilance of militants and sympathizers and invited the Military Command to “privilege inclusive dialogue, ending political persecution” to restore constitutional order in the country.
The Guinean military staged a coup d'état on November 26, 2025, the day before the publication of the results of legislative and presidential elections, and removed from power the then President, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
The opposition considered that this was a coup d'état staged to allow Sissoco Embalo, who has lived regularly in Morocco since the coup, to return to power through new presidential and legislative elections marked by the military on 6 December.