Former Finance Minister Jose Mario Vaz: Most polling ended at 5 p.m. local time, although some polling stations had delays, Katia Lopes, executive secretary of the national electoral commission, told reporters in Bissau today. Results are expected within a week, according to Business Week. Former Finance Minister Jose Mario Vaz is considered the frontrunner in the presidential vote, according to Bjorn Van Wees, Africa analyst at the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit. Vaz is the candidate for Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde, or which fought a guerrilla war against the Portuguese and took power at independence in 1974 and Guinea Bissau started counting votes in presidential and legislative elections to restore democracy two years after a coup thwarted a previous poll and triggered an economic slide in the former Portuguese colony. As many as 775,500 voters out of a population of 1.6 million in the West African nation were eligible to cast ballots, according to the United Nations Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea Bissau, after elections were delayed twice. Thirteen presidential candidates and 15 parties are vying for 102 parliamentary seats.
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