In São Tomé e Príncipe legislative elections for two seats were re-run on Sunday. They were rescheduled because of problems the previous week when the election proper was held. According to a São Tomé source, in Belém there was no water and voters refused to go to the polls. In Montalvão there were irregularities and the Electoral Commission ordered a re-run.

The election was potentially significant given the closeness of the result the previous week. Below was the original result:

Acção Democrática Independente (Independent Democratic Action – ADI), 26 deputies
MLSTP/PSD, 21 deputies
PCD, 7 deputies
MDFM-PL, 1 deputy
Total, 55 deputies

Anyway, Il Publico reports that the PCD won the most votes in the re-run, but not enough to win an extra seat, which would have deprived the president’s MDFM-PL party of any representation. So, the same distribution of seats remains.

The ADI website seems to suggest that an alliance with the MLSTP/PSD or the PCD is not possible. If so, then those two parties may form a coalition. However, just about any combination is probably still possible.