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Guinea: Do they really want to go for the ballot?
Observers were thinking that the announcement of the 24TH of October, by the Guinean authorities, as the new date for the second round of the presidential elections, has appeased the spirits, but in reality both camps are at loggerheads about who should be presiding the Independent National Electoral Commission, currently occupied by Louncény Camara.
The newly installed chairman is called to appear in court to answer charges of vote rigging during the first round of Guinea’s presidential election. That drew sharp criticism from supporters of leading presidential candidate Diallo who accused him of bias and being an avowed supporter of veteran opposition leader Alpha Condé. They want the transitional president Konaté intervene for the election of a neutral and consensual person to get the country out of the current deadlock. But the deputy director of Alpha Condé’s campaign, Kiry Bangoura, stated that there is no need of electing a new president for the INEC. The presidential decree issued last Tuesday, setting the date of the second round on October 24, implicitly recognised Loucény Camara as the head of the Guinean Electoral Commission. All this suspicious and conflagrating situation would probably lead the interim president, General Konaté, to lunch a third ultimatum… But would he go for it and what would be the consequences if ever the two runners will not smooth their animosities. Tension is still high over the instalment of Louncény Camara as chairman of the electoral commission, fuelled by and for some ethnic considerations?