{{Guinea-Bissau’s parliament rejected a bill on Tuesday that would have granted amnesty to the leaders of the latest of a long line of military coups last year, according to a journalist in the chamber.}}<\/p>\n
The motion put forward by the transitional government needed a majority among the country’s 100 lawmakers but just 40 gave it the go-ahead, with a quarter of lawmakers absent, according to acting speaker Braima Sori Djalo.<\/p>\n
“That’s democracy. Every member voted according to his conscience,” he said.<\/p>\n
Guinea-Bissau, a nation of just 1.6 million people, has suffered chronic instability since independence from Portugal in 1974.<\/p>\n
The volatility has fanned poverty, attracting South American drug cartels which have turned it into a hub of cocaine trafficking for west Africa.<\/p>\n
Former army chief Antonio Indjai overthrew the regime of former premier Carlos Gomes Junior on April 12 last year before agreeing to hand power to a civilian transitional government.<\/p>\n
The caretaker regime headed by President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on November 24.<\/p>\n
The national assembly did not reveal the details of the bill but legislators said it would have handed immunity from prosecution to civilians and military personnel implicated in the coup.<\/p>\n
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