GUINEA’s Supreme Court on Sunday validated an overwhelming presidential election victory for junta chief Mamady Doumbouya, crediting him with 86.72% of votes.
This confirms provisional results announced earlier last week, following the December 28 election that excluded opposition heavyweights from the ballot.
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The runner-up, Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, won 6.59% of the vote, also unchanged from the provisional result.
Baldé, who had challenged the election result in a filing with the Supreme Court, had since “voluntarily withdrawn” the complaint, the Court’s first president, Fode Bangoura, said as he announced the final election tally.
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In his first address to the nation after official results were released, Doumbouya adopted a unifying tone.
“Today, there are neither winners nor losers. There is only one Guinea, united and indivisible,” the president-elect said in a broadcast late Sunday, calling on citizens to “build a new Guinea, a Guinea of peace, justice, shared prosperity, and fully assumed political and economic sovereignty.”
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Mamadi Doumbouya came to power in a 2021 coup that ousted President Alpha Condé.
This year’s presidential election was widely seen as a means to legitimise his stay in power.
