Following the failure of the October 2020 presidential election, the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea (UFDG), the largest opposition party, is trying to mobilize its militants again. On Saturday, March 27, he organized his second virtual general assembly, unable to gather his supporters at his headquarters, closed by security forces since October. Since the presidential election, the party had been almost silent and withdrew from the political scene.
At the microphone, a speaker gives the floor to a few hand-picked representatives of the UFDG: a youth leader, a representative of the diaspora, a party leader alternates.
This virtual meeting takes the form of a conference that ends with a critical speech by party leader Cellou Dalein Diallo who condemns the arrest of his staff and the social problems facing the country.
“The economic crisis, which is particularly marked by a drastic decline in household incomes, rising unemployment and rising basic food prices – a direct consequence of the depreciation of the national currency -, the closing of borders and the rise of attractive taxes. The misery we are experiencing is not inevitable, but the consequence of bad governance. ”
For the UFDG, organizing this type of meeting is a matter of survival: “The goal is to mobilize our activists again,” explains Joachim Millimono, a member of the UFDG’s communications team. The party is well aware that the closure of its headquarters in Conakry since October will remove it from its supporters.
For an observer of political life, it is also the image of Cellou Dalein Diallo that is at stake: “UFDG has been voiceless for a long time, analyzes this source. These meetings are an attempt to internally express Cellou Dalein Diallo’s legitimacy to still lead the party.
