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Guinea: Dalein Diallo and Condé in the second round
If these provisional results are confirmed by the Supreme Court, the two top-scorers, Diallo and Condé, will advance to a second round of elections. The president of the CENI, Ben Sékou Sylla, did not specify the date of the second tour, initially announced by July 18th.
According to the commission, the 3rd favourite of the ballot, former Prime Minister Sidya Touré collected 15,60 % of the votes. 3965 observers, national and international, were deployed all over the country, and more than 122.000 Guineans also voted abroad (17 countries). This campaign has revealed the voters’ deep appetite for social justice in this poor country of western Africa.
But Sidya Touré, the candidate of the UFR arrived third, quite as Lansana Kouyaté, fourth with 7,75 % of the votes are contesting these results and denouncing massive frauds …
Observers applauded the emphasis by the candidates on national unity throughout the first round of campaigning. But many say ethnic and regional identities are still strong in Guinea and could prove influential as supporters square off behind the two remaining candidates. After nearly two years of tumultuous transition, the days and weeks ahead are crucial to deciding Guinea’s fate.
Whatsoever might be the issue, we wish that the Guineans will meet and pull upward a country mistreated by its children but loved by God who gave them so many natural assets and resources always eyed by the multinationals, but also source of conflicts and quarrels …