Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission on Friday published "definitive" results for last month's presidential runoff in the unstable West African country, confirming winning candidate Umaro Sissoco Embalo's victory. Losing candidate Domingos Simoes Pereira is still disputing the election result, however, and there is ongoing confusion over whether the Supreme Court will make the final decision. Embalo won 53.55 percent of the votes in the December 29 runoff, while Pereira, from Guinea-Bissau's traditional ruling party, won 46.45 percent, according to the National Electoral Commission (CNE). The results match provisional runoff results published January 1. The CNE said on Friday that "it considers the results as definitive". But apparently seeking to preempt the announcement, Pereira said on Thursday that the CNE did not have the final say on the result, in a video uploaded on social media. He said that he was waiting for the "Supreme Court to deliver the democratic, electoral truth." Guinea-Bissau's presidential poll took place without problems, according to election observers. Pereira, however, has said the election was "full of irregularities, annulment and manipulation". Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court spokesman Salimo Vieira told AFP that the court was examining an appeal lodged by Pereira's African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). "I can't tell you whether the resulting decision will overturn or confirm the results proclaimed by the CNE," Vieira said. Guinea-Bissau has known little but coups and instability since its independence from Portugal in 1974. The country has long struggled with poverty and corruption and it has also become a transit route for South American cocaine heading to Europe. aye-lal/siu/stb/pma