By Alberto Dabo

BISSAU, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s military junta adopted a 12-month transitional charter that bars the interim president and prime minister from running in the next ‍elections, two weeks after officers staged a coup that suspended the constitution.

The 29-article charter, published on Tuesday, requires presidential and legislative elections to be held at the end of the one-year transitional period, with the polling date to be set by the transitional president.

Army officers ‌in Guinea-Bissau, branding themselves the Military High ‌Command, toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26 and installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as interim president the following day.

Ilidio Vieira Te, a civil servant and former finance minister, was named prime minister a

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