Guinea: the FNDC challenges ECOWAS to obtain a reasonable deadline for the transition

Colonel Doumbouya surrounded by members of the CRND, September 17, 2021. AFP - JOHN WESSELS

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In Guinea, after renouncing its mobilization on June 23, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) is now calling on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), on the eve of the summit of heads of state of the regional organization to be held in Accra on 3 July.

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The movement had canceled its demonstration of June 23 the day before, on June 22, announcing a one-week truce to, he says, give a chance to the dialogue requested by Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui.

This deadline having expired, Thursday, the FNDC relies on ECOWAS to put pressure on the junta in power in Conakry and obtain a reasonable deadline for the transition for a rapid return to constitutional order.

After this truce, the national coordination of the FNDC notes, with regret, that no significant progress is perceptible to create the appropriate conditions to reframe the transition which pitches, with a view to a rapid return to constitutional order.

This is why the FNDC is seeking the benevolence of the competent authorities of ECOWAS, which are meeting on July 3, 2022 to ask the CNRD

[National Committee for the Rally for Development]

to open a framework for dialogue between the CNRD, the actors politicians and civil society, with the facilitation of ECOWAS,

the setting of a reasonable and consensual deadline for the transition, instead of being in six months imposed by the CNRD unilaterally, the respect of fundamental rights and freedoms, in particular the right to demonstrate in accordance with national, regional and international commitments from Guinea.

It seems fundamental to us that ECOWAS intervene to chair the dialogue and thus promote the return to constitutional order in Guinea through the inclusive organization of free and transparent elections

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declared Mamadou Billo Bah, responsible for mobilization and branches of the FNDC.

Read also: ECOWAS postpones its decisions on the transitions in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso

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