US EditionJunta Leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya Is Declared Winner of Guinea’s Election, Provisional Results Show
Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya secured 86.72% of votes amid opposition bans and a referendum extending presidential terms to seven years, critics say the vote legitimizes his rule.
- Provisional results released by the General Directorate of Elections show Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea's election, with 86.72%.
- The vote completed a transition begun years ago after Doumbouya ousted President Alpha Condé, and a September referendum allowed military officers to run and extended the presidential term to seven years.
- More than 50 political parties were dissolved, and opposition candidates were banned or exiled, critics say, with analysts predicting a weakened field for Doumbouya's victory.
- Authorities are banking on the Simandou iron ore project, 75% Chinese-owned, which began production last month to create thousands of jobs and attract investment.
- Guinea is one of several West African countries that have seen coups since 2020, and half of its 15-million-strong population faces poverty and record food insecurity, the World Food Program reports.
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In Guinea, military leaders Doumbouya, according to the authorities, won the presidential election.
Since the putsch in 2021, the military general has ruled as the interim president. The most important opposition politicians were excluded from the election in Guinea.
The head of the junta in Guinea, General Mamadi Doumbouya, was widely elected on Tuesday evening in the presidential elections, an unsuspended sacre for this election from which the tenors of the opposition in exile were excluded in a context of narrowing freedoms.Some 6.8 million Guineans were called to elect their next president on Sunday in an election supposed to complete the return to constitutional order four years after the takeover of po…
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Guinea junta chief Doumboya elected president: election commission
Guinea's junta chief Mamady Doumbouya, who had pledged not to run for office after seizing power four years ago, has been elected president after securing a sweeping majority of the vote, according to initial results by the country's election commission…
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