In Guinea, in the wake of the presidential election, where the government and the opposition accuse each other of intimidation against their representatives, it is now the preparation and publication of the results that is crystallizing the tensions. . The government warns the political parties that themselves want to publish the results of the polling stations by claiming that only CENI is authorized to announce the preliminary results, but the opposition replies that the results are therefore shown publicly and carry out its own centralization.
From our correspondent in Conakry,Carol Valade
For power, the opposition and CENI, the night has been long. The election management body centralizes the results. The minutes are collected at the level of the local commissions. And it is only upon receipt of the last report that it must publish the preliminary results within 72 hours. It will therefore take several days before there is an official result.
At the same time, the opposition continues with its own collection because it believes that CENI is “subordinate to power”. The government accuses him of wanting to offset problems by issuing “false results” and naming itself the winner before CENI finishes its work.
The Prime Minister invites himself into the fight
The RPG, the ruling party, for its part, is no exception. Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, who is also President Alpha Condé’s campaign director, considers the UFDG’s victory to be “almost impossible” according to his own tendencies and gives his opinion on the outcome of the office in which Cellou Dalein Diallo voted in a Facebook post has been deleted. .
In another statement, he claims that no opposition members were arrested in either Yomou or Siguiri and that there were no minor votes in Kankan.
Finally, the High Communications Authority announced in a decision read on national television that the news site Guinea Matin was suspended for a month for having broadcast “live” on its Facebook page of the office’s counting operations. to vote.
► See also: Guinean presidential election: voting day
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