Guinea Conakry: How much is enough to ovoid the failure

By on August 25, 2010
The head of the transitional government Jean-Marie Doré said Monday that he wanted to change the constitution to reduce the role of INEC.

He suggested that the organisation and the supervision of the second round would be accomplished “jointly” with the Ministry of the Territorial Administration and the Political Affairs, to better monitor the poll.
This declaration has sparked the ire of the press in Guinea, and critics have been chained against Jean-Marie Doré, already accused of having urged the postponement of the presidential runoff. “We demand the departure of Jean-Marie Doré because he has lost his mind”, Oussou Fofana, director of the UFDG, the party of Cellou Dalein Diallo, said. The same story in the civil society, denouncing the attitude of the Prime Minister: “It is immoral to do things based on selfish considerations or sectarian interests”, Fatou Baldé said.
Alpha Condé is the one who didn’t criticise the Prime Minister proposal, but declared that:”We need to organise transparent elections in Guinea and the INEC, alone, cannot do it”.          This declaration might turn against him, especially now that the opponent is at the heart of a controversy, recently released in a video tape. It is about Captain Mossa Dadis Camara accusing Alpha Condé of being the investigator of the event and the massacres of September 28, 2009 at the stadium in Conakry. To prevent the circulation of this video tape, and try to minimise the tensions between the two opponent blocs, a special policing operation has been launched by the gendarmes, the policemen and the red berets, “criss-crossing the country’s markets and searching systematically for the recorded DVD…

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