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BISSAU, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's former prime minister Umaro Sissoco Embalo has won the presidential election held on Sunday, the West African nation's electoral commission said.
According to the provisional results published Wednesday by the National Election Commission of Guinea-Bissau (NEC), Embalo, candidate of the Movement for Democratic Alternation (MADEM-G15), obtained 53.55 percent of the votes during the presidential election runoff held on December 29.
He was competing with another former prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira, candidate of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), who won 46.45 percent of the votes.
