Guinea-Bissau's presidential and legislative elections, due in December, are in doubt after the National Electoral Commission warned that conditions for holding them are not in place, though no postponement has been announced. Senegal, mediating for the West African bloc ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States), has urged the ruling military to lift restrictions on political and civil activity and said any change to the calendar must be inclusive and transparent, with guarantees of a return to civilian rule. The army has held power since November 2025, when soldiers ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and halted the electoral process a day before provisional results were due, leaving the small West African nation's path back to civilian government uncertain.