Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo

Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo ( born March 25, 1958) is a politician from Guinea- Bissau. He was vice president of the National Assembly since May 2012 and is interim president of his country.

Nhamadjo was a member of the Partido Africano by 2012 as Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde ( PAIGC ), since it is independent. As a parliamentarian, he was in 2009 and again in 2012 briefly acting parliament speaker.

He was considered a confidant of former President Malam Bacai Sanhá. In the first round of the 2012 presidential election on March 18, 2012, he received as an independent candidate 15.7 percent of the vote and made it so that in third place in the not planned for April 29 ballot for which there due to a military coup d'état on 12 April 2012 never came. After the coup, the junta and the opposition agreed on April 19 to Nhamadjo as interim president for a two-year transition period until the holding of elections. However Nhamadjo refused the takeover of the Office, and the African Union and the West African Economic Community ( ECOWAS) rejected the agreement as an attempt to legitimize the coup and refused from Nhamadjo recognition. On 11 May 2012, the junta and ECOWAS agreed but on Nhamadjo, who now agreed to the takeover of the Office.