Presidential election in Guinea 2010

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The 2010 presidential election in Guinea was the first free election in Guinea's history . The first round took place on June 27, 2010 and required a runoff between former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and the 73-year-old Alpha Condé , who had been in opposition to all three heads of state Guinea since independence in 1958. Alpha Condé, the loser of the first round, emerged from the multiple postponed runoff election after an election campaign that was increasingly based on ethnic arguments - Fulbe versus Malinke - which sparked massive clashes between Diallo supporters and the police. Cellou Dallei Diallo stated that he did not accept the election result. On November 15, Condé was declared the winner of the presidential election by the electoral commission. Condé called for reconciliation and his opponent Diallo also urged his supporters to remain calm and announced a legal challenge to the election. The role played by General Sékouba Konaté , the interim president of the military junta, who renounced power and stood for democratic elections, is remarkable throughout the electoral process . The parliamentary elections in Guinea were initially planned for 2011. However, these were postponed several times and only took place on September 28, 2013. They were preceded by the clashes in Guinea in 2013 .

Pre-election history

See also main article History of Guinea

In 2008, shortly after the death of the long-standing, dictatorial president Lansana Conté, the Guinean military under Moussa Dadis Camara pushed ahead and announced free elections for 2009. However, the coup leader Camara soon relativized his original announcement that he would not stand for election in person. An attack on Camara on December 3, 2009 forced him to seek medical care in Burkina Faso and triggered chaotic conditions in Guinea, which were only ended by an agreement signed in Burkina Faso according to which General Sékouba Konaté was to organize the elections.

Multiple postponement of the runoff election

The runoff election, originally planned for July 18, was only postponed to September 19, 2010 and later to October 24, 2010. When this date was canceled two days before the planned election in October - this time without specifying a new date - there were serious riots in several cities in the country with fatalities between the Fulbe and Malinke , i.e. the two ethnic groups to which the runoff candidates belong . The still ruling military then imposed a ban on gatherings. A few days later, Guinea's state television confirmed November 7, 2010 as the date for the final runoff election. The electoral commission had declared the postponement of the September date with delays in the preparation of the ballot. Previously, there had been violent riots in the capital Conakry between the supporters of the two remaining candidates, which claimed at least two lives and 50 injured. In the run-up to the second scheduled appointment in October, the suddenly deceased head of the election commission was replaced by a unionist close to the candidate Condé. When Diallou threatened to boycott the election, General Siaka Toumany Sangaré from neighboring Mali was appointed the new head of the election commission, who then canceled the election on October 22nd, two days before the planned runoff election "due to incomplete technical preparations and ambiguities about the election lists". In fact, Condé's party RPG had complained that 600,000 of the 4 million voters did not yet have voting cards.

In the months between the first round of the election and the now canceled run-off date, the dispute between the two candidates Cellou and Conté had increasingly developed into an ethnic conflict between the two ethnic groups from which the two candidates come: Cellou Dallein Diallo is a member of the people the Fulbe , Alpha Condé belongs to the Malinke people . Condé had portrayed Diallou as a representative of the old establishment from the time of the dictatorship, and himself as a force of renewal. Diallou then played and countered the ethnic card that Condé, as Malinke, belongs to the same ethnic group as the former, long-time dictator Sekou Touré . But now it is time for a representative of the Fulbe to appoint the president. The Fulani make up about 40% of the population of Guinea, making them the largest ethnic group in the country, followed by the Malinke, to whom about 30% of the population belong.

1st round of the presidential election

24 candidates were eligible for election:., Including four former Prime Ministers ( Cellou Dalein Diallo , François Lonseny Fall , Lansana Kouyaté and Sidya Touré ). After the names of the better-known candidates, the original French name of his party including the abbreviation is given, with the others only the abbreviations. Of the 24 candidates who ran for the first round of the election, only four candidates had won more than 5% of the vote.

Results

Candidates Parties First round Second round
be right % be right %
Cellou Dalein Diallo UFDG ? 43.69 1,333,666 47.48
Alpha Condé RPG ? 18.25 1,474,973 52.52
Sidya Touré UFR ? 13.02
Lansana Kouyaté PEDN ? 7.04
Papa Koly Kouroumah RDR ? 5.74
Ibrahima Abe Sylla NGR ? 3.23
Jean Marc Telliano RDIG ? 2.33
Aboubacar Somparé PUP ? 0.95
Boubacar Barry PNR ? 0.8
Ousmane Bah UPR ? 0.68
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana GPT ? 0.66
Elhadj Mamadou Sylla UDG ? 0.45
François Lounceny case FUDEC ? 0.46
Ousmane Kaba PLUS ? 0.39
Saran Daraba Kaba CDP ? 0.39
Mamady Diawara PTS ? 0.31
Boubacar Bah ADPG ? 0.3
Mamadou Baadiko Bah UFD ? 0.3
Alpha Ibrahima Keïra PR ? 0.25
M'Bemba Traoré PDU ? 0.24
Joseph Bangoura UDIG ? 0.18
Abraham Bouré RGUD ? 0.12
Fodé Mohamed Soumah GECI ? 0.11
Bouna Keita RGP ? 0.07
total votes cast for all candidates ? 100.00 100.00
valid votes in total
total invalid votes
Total votes cast
voter turnout %
Source: ceniguinee (PDF; 290 kB)

Runoff results

The narrow winner of the runoff election held on November 7, 2010 was Alpha Condé, who lost in the first round. According to the unofficial final score, Condé won 52.6% while his rival candidate Diallo received 47.4%. This reversal of the results of the first round, in which Diallo had won twice as many votes as Condé, was evidently the result of an ethnic voting behavior. Condé had managed to arouse resentment against the Guinea economically dominant Fulbe ethnic group, to which Diallo belongs. The result sparked massive clashes between Diallo supporters and the police. Cellou Dalein Diallo said that he did not accept the election result and called for by-elections in two districts of the capital Conakry, where his supporters had been intimidated. The election victory, which Condé had also won here in the capital, is considered to be particularly surprising. The geographical distribution of the voting results shows the division of the country and the election mainly according to ethnic criteria: In the east of the country Condé won the majority throughout the country, while Diallo in the Fulbe regions of the west. The only exception here is the capital Conakry in the west, where Condé gained the majority.

Bottom line:

candidate %
Alpha Condé 52.52
Cellou Dalein Diallo 47.48

Reactions

The winner Conde spoke of a "historic moment" and a "new era" and stressed that he was a president for all people of Guinea. The defeated Diallo, however, spoke of electoral fraud. In Moyen Guinee , a stronghold of Diallo, riots and demonstrations broke out the day after the runoff election. On November 17th, the government declared a state of emergency and a night curfew in the capital Conakry due to violent clashes with at least 7 dead, which should last until the official publication of the election results. In Labé and other cities in the north of the country there is also a daytime curfew. The defeated candidate Diallo spoke of the "brutal repression" of the protests by security forces.

On November 16, the Sierra Leone police announced that ethnic unrest had spread to their territory. Twenty people were arrested in the city of Kenema for ethnically motivated riots between members of the Fulbe and Malinke ethnic groups .

Individual evidence

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