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Guinea: Like an American campaign within a background of poverty
The African peoples have this peculiarity to admire those who please them height the sight. To seduce the electorate, there’s nothing like a show off and wealth exhibition. Then, certain leaders at the power and candidates for their own succession have understood well this means and use successfully. They display an orgy of means to beat the electoral campaign, and mobilise colossal means to go to the conquest of the electorate.
What takes place in Guinea today is however an atypical case. The candidates in the race can count only on their address book to finance their campaign. They are forced to lead campaigns as we say by “the door-to-door selling”, for lack of means. The acting president is not candidate for his own succession, thus the money of the contributable should not take the destination of inconvenient pockets. Nevertheless, the stakes are so high and the electoral fever has seized the Guinean population and especially its political brass, showing the importance of the coming event. Indeed, it is the first time for the country to live and vibrate to a really opened democratic experience.
People, oppressed for a long time, finally see an opening boulevard of freedom and democracy, so they simply and naturally rush in through with the risk of excesses connected to such jubilation. So whatever the expenses might be for the candidates, are accepted even in an ambient poverty. They are even understood when we think of the long years of repression. Alpha Condé, in particular, knows something about it.
He is one, with Lansana Kouyaté, Celloun Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré, of the four favourite candidates. So good luck then…and the race is open …