Party for Social Renewal

The Partido para a Renovação Social ( PRS) is a political party in Guinea- Bissau.

Foundation

After the approval of political parties alongside the long-standing single party PAIGC in 1989 excluded from the PAIGC Kumba IALA founded on 14 January 1992, the PRS. IALA ran in 1994 at the first free presidential elections, reaching 21.88 % of the votes in the first ballot and was defeated on August 7, 1994 at the second ballot with 47.98 % against the ruling since 1980 president João Bernardo Vieira.

Ruling party

After the fall Vieira put the transitional government under Malam Bacai Sanhá new elections. IALA stepped back in time, reaching 38.81 % of the votes in the first ballot, winning 16 January 2000 at around 72 % compared Sanhá. The PRS was in the parliamentary elections in November 1999, the largest party with 38 of the 102 seats. The reign of the PRS was overshadowed by coup attempts and rebellion Ansumane Manes. Ialás increasingly authoritarian government ended on 14 September 2003 by a coup Chief of Staff of the Army, Veríssimo Correia Seabra. The military government appointed the Secretary General of the PRS, Artur Sanhá on 28 September 2003 to the Prime Minister of the transitional government and Henrique Pereira Rosa president.

Opposition

In the parliamentary elections in March 2004, sat down with the PAIGC 31.5 % of the vote and 45 of 102 seats as the strongest party by and formed a new government, the PRS reached 24.8 % and 35 seats in second place. IALA had been released from arrest before the elections. For the 2005 presidential election, he was nominated by his party again, but different this time in the first ballot with 25% of votes from. The second ballot denied the ex-President Malam Bacai Sanhá and Vieira, the latter triumphed on 24 July 2005. First, IALA and his party protested against the outcome of the first round. IALA itself the result later accepted and argued before the second ballot for Vieira, during his party colleagues further demonstrated.

The crisis of the PAIGC, which seceded from 14 of its 45 deputies after Vieira took office on 1 October 2005, the PRS strongest force in Parliament.