{"id":41707,"date":"2025-12-30T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=41707"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:44:02","slug":"guinea-presidential-vote-marred-by-opposition-boycott-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=41707","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Presidential Vote Marred by Opposition Boycott Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conakry, Guinea<\/strong> &#8211; Vote counting continues in Guinea following the presidential election held on Sunday, December 28th. The election is intended to mark the end of a four-year transitional period led by General Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately seven million Guineans were eligible to vote for a new president. While authorities have characterized the election as having high turnout, the opposition alleges a widespread popular boycott.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of Elections announced a voter turnout of 85% shortly after the polls closed. However, local and international press outlets covering the election have painted a different picture, reporting &#8220;low turnout&#8221; and a &#8220;lack of enthusiasm&#8221; at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>The National Alliance for Alternation and Democracy (ANAD), an opposition coalition comprised of prominent figures in exile or prison, claims its call for a boycott was widely heeded. <\/p>\n<p>Souleymane Souza Konate, ANAD&#8217;s media officer, stated that the election is &#8220;the latest act in a political charade designed to keep Mamady Doumbouya in power through force and deception,&#8221; adding that &#8220;the overwhelming majority of Guineans abstained from voting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch<\/em> has learned that prior to the election, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concerns about &#8220;cases of intimidation of opponents, enforced disappearances, and restrictions on freedom of the media,&#8221; warning that these violations could undermine the credibility of the entire electoral process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conakry, Guinea &#8211; Vote counting continues in Guinea following the presidential election held on Sunday, December 28th. The election is intended to mark the end of a four-year transitional period led by General Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a military coup.<br \/>\nApproxim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41709,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707\/revisions\/41709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}