Presidential in Guinea: the political class divided after the ECOWAS audit
Voters' cards are checked at a distribution center in the Koloma district in Conakry.
RFI / Carol Valade
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The reactions multiply after the audit of the electoral register by three experts from ECOWAS.
The presidential majority camp says it is satisfied.
But the Guinean opposition is more suspicious of the reliability of this electoral list.
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With our correspondent in Conakry,
Mokhtar Bah
The audit of the Guinean electoral register by three
ECOWAS
experts
resulted in the delisting of “
false voters
”, minors, deceased persons and duplicates.
The ruling party welcomes this, and invites everyone to the polls for
the presidential election on October 18
.
“
ECOWAS, by giving its discharge, provides proof that our country is really on the right track.
This satisfies us and I believe that it satisfies those who go to the presidential election
, ”rejoices Malick Sankon, member of the Executive Board of the RPG in power.
For him, the electoral register is "
good
" and
the elections
will
be
able "to
be held, as is planned
" on October 18.
“
We have always wanted the election to be inclusive.
So, anything that can reassure those who go into the competition, that makes us happy,
”he concludes.
For its part, the opposition has reservations about the work of the experts.
"
More than 50% of the voters who are in the Guinean file are not registered on the basis of a reliable identity document
", criticizes Cellou Baldé, vice-president of the electoral commission of the UFDG, main party of opposition.
Slippage
According to him, there was work to be done upstream.
"
If the ECOWAS had done serious work in the technical support of the Ceni, the lists should be validated, displayed, the registration control done, and after that, the voter cards [should be] printed to allow this that any Guinean citizen of voting age, who is correctly registered, can have his electoral card
”.
The electoral campaign, which had
started timidly
, has experienced some slippages in recent days, with clashes between rival militants in Upper Guinea.
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