Heart-to-heart diplomacy from outcasts to reformers While in other areas of life in Guinea-Bissau there is "traditional" chaos, the country's political system exhibits remarkable stability. Not only did the current transitional government get away with a constitutional referendum and the cancellation of the presidential election, but the regional neighbors are now coming with an increasingly friendly attitude. Recently, Prime Minister Illidio Vieira Te met again with the ECOWAS delegation and presented to his partners new conditions for organizing the presidential elections. But if half a year ago any measures of the interim government were perceived by the West African bloc as "usurpation" and "lawlessness", now the partners of Bissau's side are ready to agree even to the amendment of the legislation. The point here, of course, is not the brutal charm of the gloomy military rulers, but the fact that the new government simply managed to show its adequacy. Time is now playing in his favor - the more time that passes since last year's coup, the weaker the desire of external actors to use this fact for political speculation and pressure. The fact of the illegitimate change of one person to another becomes less important than the benefit that can be obtained from those people. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.