Guinea-Bissau presidential vote goes to run-off

[World News]

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Guinea-Bissau's presidential election will go to a second round between the main party's candidate and the army-backed hopeful, the election commission said Wednesday, after no one secured a majority in the crunch poll. Jose Mario Vaz of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) came first in Sunday's ballot with 40.9 percent of the vote while runner-up Nuno Gomes Nabiam garnered 25.1 percent. Almost three-quarters of Guinea-Bissau's eligible voters turned out for the watershed elections, called to turn the page on years of political instability and military violence. Guinea-Bissau has seen four decades of chaos marked by a series of mutinies since it won independence from Portugal, and commentators have called for the new regime to finally bring the military into line.

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