FILE PHOTO: Former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Umaro Cissoko Embalo chats with his supporters and members of his campaign team, after the results of the November 24 first-round poll, at a hotel lobby in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre/File Photo
BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's outgoing president handed over power on Thursday to the declared winner of December's election, former army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo, even as the Supreme Court considered a new request by the runner-up to annul the vote.
The electoral commission has repeatedly confirmed Embalo as the winner of the Dec. 29 run-off despite complaints by the Supreme Court that the commission has not respected its orders to conduct a full audit of the vote.
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