Guinea’s Supreme Court Validates Mamady Doumbouya Election

Guinea’s Supreme Court has validated the presidential election won by Mamady Doumbouya, at the December 28 poll.

The court says Mamady Dou won by 86.72% of the votes.

This confirms provisional results of the runner-up, Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, with 6.59% of the votes.

Balde Voluntarily Withdrawn Complaint

Baldé, who had challenged the election result in a filing with the Supreme Court, had since “voluntarily withdrawn” the complaint, the Court’s first president, Fode Bangoura, said as he announced the final election tally.

Calling for Unity

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.”

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.