Both second-round candidates and the incumbent president were initially arrested by the junta. Members of the Military Council, which ran the country until an interim National Transitional Council was established on 15 April, said that one of the reasons for the coup was the incumbent civilian administration's call for Angola help to reform the military. Following international condemnation and sanctions against leaders of the junta, an agreement was signed that led to the third place candidate in the election, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, selected as interim president. The presidential election was aborted and postponed for at least two years into the future. An interim government is tasked with administering Guinea-Bissau in the meantime.
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| - 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
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| - Both second-round candidates and the incumbent president were initially arrested by the junta. Members of the Military Council, which ran the country until an interim National Transitional Council was established on 15 April, said that one of the reasons for the coup was the incumbent civilian administration's call for Angola help to reform the military. Following international condemnation and sanctions against leaders of the junta, an agreement was signed that led to the third place candidate in the election, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, selected as interim president. The presidential election was aborted and postponed for at least two years into the future. An interim government is tasked with administering Guinea-Bissau in the meantime.
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- Up to 200
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Commander
| - Adiato Djaló Nandigna
- Carlos Gomes Júnior
- Cândido Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem
- Fernando Vaz
- General Antonio Indjai
- General Mamadu Ture Kuruma
- Raimundo Pereira
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Result
| - * Bissau seized by Military Command
* Military Command seizes control of state media
* Arrest of presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior and interim President Raimundo Pereira
* Dissolution of state institutions
* Aborted election
* Interim transitional government led by Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, after consensus acting Prime Minister Rui Duarte de Barros
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combatant
| - Police
- Military Command
- Angolan Armed Forces
- Civilian administration
- National Transitional Council
- PAIGC
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abstract
| - Both second-round candidates and the incumbent president were initially arrested by the junta. Members of the Military Council, which ran the country until an interim National Transitional Council was established on 15 April, said that one of the reasons for the coup was the incumbent civilian administration's call for Angola help to reform the military. Following international condemnation and sanctions against leaders of the junta, an agreement was signed that led to the third place candidate in the election, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, selected as interim president. The presidential election was aborted and postponed for at least two years into the future. An interim government is tasked with administering Guinea-Bissau in the meantime.
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