By RFPosted on 03-12-2019Modified on 03-12-2019 at 22:57
26 FNDC activists were released on December 3, declared not guilty of "criminal participation in a crowd" by the Mafanco court in Conakry. Authorization of the demonstrations, ministerial reshuffle, release of the main leaders of the National Front of defense of the Constitution ...: the signals of appeasement multiply in Guinea. Should we see there the sign of a relaxation while the president of the Republic still keeps the blur on his intentions concerning a possible third mandate?
It is difficult to know what the international condemnations and the political strategy have weighed in this relative lull. " The power is sensitive to its image, but chancelleries have not really raised the tone, " said a diplomat.
An observer notes a " change of strategy " on the part of the authorities, a " less repressive " approach, a " better communication ".
" Since the beginning of the crisis, the presidency advocates measures of appeasement, " recalls for its part a leader of the RPG.
From the FNDC, it is suggested that the release of leaders has long been the subject of bargaining. " But the tension remains latent, " warns François Patuel, Amnesty International, recalling that other activists remain incarcerated in the interior, sometimes without trial, as in Kindia the coordinator Alseny Farinta Camara.
Opposition deputies returned to their seats in the National Assembly. Within the political parties, it is now only a question of beating campaign for the " legislative " scheduled for February.
A two-thirds majority would allow the power to advance more comfortably towards its new draft constitution. But the technical problems, the missing material, the suspicions of recruitment of minors, let fear a delay in the operations.
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