Guinea: FNDC's call to demonstrate little followed in Conakry

General view of Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Getty Images / Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg

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New day of mobilization in Guinea where the FNDC calls for a new day of “citizen and permanent resistance” against the draft new Constitution. Monday, February 10, President Alpha Condé opened the door to a possible candidacy for a third term which is prohibited by the current fundamental law

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Conakry, the Guinean capital, has the air of a dead city. People have not gone to work, the shops are closed and the roads cleared. This is particularly the case on Le Prince road, where most of the shops are closed and traffic is very light.

Residents did not go out to protest outside their homes, as requested by the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution . Indeed, for this mobilization, the FNDC encouraged citizens hostile to the draft new Constitution to create crowds in their neighborhoods. Crowds, which are generally dispersed by the police.

No incident has been reported yet, but is a sign of the tension that reigned on Wednesday morning, access to the home of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo was temporarily blocked by law enforcement.

The divided political class

The political class is divided on the posture to be adopted for the two ballots (legislative and referendum on a new Constitution) scheduled for March 1. On the one hand, there are political parties preparing and fighting for the legislative elections on March 1. This is the case of the RPG, the Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée, which supports all of President Alpha Condé's projects. There is no question of changing someone whose assessment is positive, explains Sékou Condé, the permanent secretary of the RPG.

For its part, the opposition is campaigning against double voting. Cellou Dalein Diallo believes that the referendum is an " illegal consultation , which calls into question the meager democratic achievements " of Guinea. The opposition intends to boycott the March 1 polls because it believes that the electoral register is not reliable and therefore has doubts about the transparency of these elections.

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