Political parties backing Guinea’s coup-leader-turned-president Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the bauxite-rich West African country’s legislative \u200belections, the electoral authority said on Friday, tightening his grip \u200con power.<\/p>\n
The final distribution of Guinea’s 147 legislative seats was still being determined, but the pro-Doumbouya Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) coalition was strongly \u200boutperforming rivals, according to provisional data. GMD and its \u200ballies had won at least 100 seats, the results \u2060showed.<\/p>\n
The outcome is set to further consolidate the position of \u200bDoumbouya, a former special forces commander who seized power in 2021 \u200band\u00a0won\u00a0a seven-year term as president in December in a result contested by his opponents.<\/p>\n
Nationwide voter turnout was 52.87% for the legislative contests and 58.51% \u200bfor communal elections, a vote for local government bodies, which \u200bwere held simultaneously on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Aminata Toure, the country’s top election official, said \u200con \u2060Thursday that political parties had eight days to challenge individual results and that the relevant judicial bodies would adjudicate any disputes.<\/p>\n
Final results will be announced after those disputes are resolved.<\/p>\n
No major opposition \u200bparties were allowed \u200bto participate \u2060in Sunday’s vote. The parties of former President Alpha Conde and opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo \u200band Sidya Toure have been dissolved.<\/p>\n
Diallo, who is \u200bin exile, \u2060in March called for “direct resistance” to Doumbouya after the government consolidated its position by dissolving those parties and 37 others.<\/p>\n
A government decree \u2060at \u200bthe time said the parties had \u200bfailed to meet legal obligations such as filing financial statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Political parties backing Guinea’s coup-leader-turned-president Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the bauxite-rich West African country’s legislative \u200belections, the electoral authority said on Friday, tightening his grip \u200con power. The final distribution of Guinea’s 147 legislative seats was still being determined, but the pro-Doumbouya Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) coalition was strongly \u200boutperforming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2854,27],"tags":[248,258],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-west-africa","tag-guinea","tag-mamady-doumbouya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21061,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions\/21061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}