00:00Guinea-Bissau's two main opposition leaders rejected an offer to join the military government on Monday.
00:10Domingos Simos Pereira, leader of the revolutionary PAIGC party, was released from prison last Friday.
00:20Together with his ally, Fernando Diaz, he received an offer to join the government of the military authorities,
00:26leading the country since a coup last November.
00:30But neither of the opposition leaders wants to associate their movements with the soldiers in power.
00:37They notably criticized the offer as a purely symbolic gesture that would offer the opposition little political weight in the government.
00:46The military's proposal included three government posts and ten seats for the opposition movements in the National Transitional Council.
00:54Critics see the offer as principally aimed at appeasing ECOWAS, which suspended Guinea-Bissau following the military coup,
01:04and has repeatedly called upon the country to respect its constitution.
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