Guinea: Ceni commissioners denounce fraud
A woman slips her ballot into the ballot box during the Guinean presidential election in Conakry on September 18, 2020. (Illustrative image) AP Photo / Sadak Souici
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Following the proclamation by the Ceni of the provisional results of the presidential election which gave the outgoing president the winner, the vice-president of the electoral body, Bano Sow, who is from the opposition, signed a declaration proposing Partial or total "resumption" of the ballot due to a number of anomalies.
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With our correspondent in Conakry,
Carol Valade
If the smooth running of the vote was welcomed by African observers, it is in the centralization operations that things get complicated.
Refusal to display the results, lack of transparency in the reporting of reports, disappearances, substitutions or even falsification of minutes ... The commissioners' report notes a "
concentration of anomalies
" in the region of Upper Guinea, deemed to be a stronghold of the power in place where certain participation rates fluctuate between 98% and more than 100%.
Few canceled polling stations, almost no invalid ballot in this rural area with a high rate of illiteracy, further underlines the document.
Finally, when the votes were totaled, "
the total number of votes cast would not correspond to the sum of the votes obtained by all the candidates
", according to the report which questions the sincerity of the results and proposes that the ballot be resumed. .
Mamady 3 Kaba, the spokesperson for the Céni, who has not yet consulted the document, sees it as a “
political
”
approach
.
It is too late, he said, appeals must now be brought "
by the candidates
" to the Constitutional Court.
The latter will then have five days to study them and announce the final results or cancel
the ballot
.
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