Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s weekend presidential election, according to partial results released late Tuesday, marking the country’s first vote since the 2021 coup that brought him to power.
Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far, according to the General Directorate of Elections. Ahead of the vote Sunday, analysts had predicted that a weakened opposition would result in Doumbouya's win.
The election was widely seen as a means to legitimize Doumbouya's stay in power. It was also the culmination of a transition process that began four years ago after Doumbouya ousted President Alpha Conde.
The junta leader has since clamped down on opposition and dissent, critics say, leaving him with no major opponents among the eight other candidates who were in the race.
More than 50 political parties were dissolved, and major opposition candidates were either banned from contesting on technical grounds or were in exile following the clampdown.
