Pro-Doumbouya coalition wins Guinea legislative vote

The electoral authority in Guinea said on Friday that political parties backing President Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the country’s legislative elections, tightening his grip on power.

The final distribution of the 147 parliamentary seats is still being determined, but provisional data shows the pro-Doumbouya Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) coalition and its allies had won at least 100 seats.

Doumbouya, a former special forces commander who seized power in a 2021 coup, won a seven‑year presidential term in December in an election contested by his opponents.

Nationwide voter turnout was 52.87% for the legislative contest and 58.51% for communal elections held simultaneously on Sunday.

Aminata Toure, the country’s top election official, said political parties have eight days to challenge individual results and that judicial bodies will adjudicate any disputes. Final results will be announced after those disputes are resolved.

No major opposition parties were allowed to participate in Sunday’s vote. The parties of former President Alpha Condé and opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré have been dissolved. Diallo, who is in exile, called for “direct resistance” to Doumbouya in March after the government dissolved those parties and 37 others. A government decree said the parties had failed to meet legal obligations such as filing financial statements.

SOURCE: Reuters