This was the second early dissolution by incumbent president Embalo, with his first dissolution of parliament being in 2022, leading to an opposition victory in the 2023 parliamentary election.[3] In response to the dissolution, parliamentary speaker Domingos Simões Pereira accused the president of carrying out a "constitutional coup d'etat."[4] Incumbent president Embalo would go on to fire the prime minister Geraldo Martins, who was appointed by the PAIGC-led National Assembly and instead appoint Rui Duarte de Barros by presidential decree.[5]
