Guinea’s military junta dissolves more than 50 parties, including two main opposition parties

MADRID 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Guinea’s military junta, in power since the 2021 coup, has dissolved more than 50 political parties and placed 67 others under observation, including two of the main opposition parties, despite the fact that they have not yet been has set a date for the elections.

“This Tuesday, October 29, 2024, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Elhadj Ibrahima Kalil Condé, inaugurated the work of presenting the report on the evaluation of political parties,” the ministry said in a statement on the social network Facebook. .

“It should be noted that cleaning the political scene is one of the priorities of the President of the Republic, Mamady Doumbouya, to promote more rigor, transparency and trust in this critical sector of national life,” they stressed.

The Government has registered 211 parties in the country and has dissolved 53, including the opposition Union of the Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) and the Guinean People’s Rally (RPG), according to the report accessed by the Guinean media. Guinéenews’.

In addition, 67 parties will be able to operate normally, although they will be “under observation” for three months until the irregularities highlighted in the report are resolved.

The military junta, headed by Mamady Doumbouya, was established after the coup d’état carried out in September 2021 against the then president, Alpha Condé, after months of political crisis in the country due to his decision to modify the Constitution to run for a third term. and his victory in the 2020 presidential elections, in which the rest of the candidates denounced fraud.