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Guinea: Help is needed to End the Stalemate
The special adviser to former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo called on the international community, including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to help resolve the stalemate and pave way for the round-off vote. Things are not moving as we expected. It’s now almost four months since the first round of elections went on.
This is exceptionally too long. We feel that something has to be done to get things moving again and speed up the process. At this stage, we feel that we need an outside international intervention to help us get this process accelerated. Both rival parties, the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) party, led by veteran opposition leader Alpha Condé and the UDFG led by former Prime Minister Diallo are deadlocked over who should head Guinea’s Independent Electoral Commission that would organize the presidential run-off vote. The new head of the electoral commission will replace Ben Sekou Sylla, who died recently in a French hospital and General Sekouba Konaté has reportedly been unable to resolve the impasse so far despite repeated talks with the two rival parties. He is subject to a number of pressures from groups and therefore it’s not easy for him to make the right decision. I think he needs some help,” Sylla said.