The first round of voting on July 17 was marked by unrest and an unsuccessful challenge by DACOSTA, who came in second to former Prime Minister EVARISTO CARVALHO.
In a letter to the Constitutional Tribunal, the seventy-eight-year-old President said he refused to participate in the second round of voting to avoid compromise.
PINTO DACOSTA also insisted that no one can be a candidate in the presidential election against his will.
