[Applause]
is burning
although the outcome of guinea's
presidential election is still days away
the prospect of a third presidential
term for incumbent alfa conde
is fueling desperation and fury among
supporters of the opposition
i am speaking to the election commission
alfa conde has been in power since 2010
instead of dialogue we all of guinea
chose the union of democratic forces of
guinea
that's what guinea wants if the ufdg is
not elected
guinea will not be calm
but guinea is already far from calm
the current bout of violence started the
day after the election
when opposition candidate dialogue
declared himself the winner of the
ballot
before the release of official results
i am victorious in this election in the
first round
but it was too soon to celebrate
over the last few days the election
commission has made official results
available
as they come in from constituencies and
so far they're not confirming the
victory that dear law claimed was his
the man in the lead is alpha conde the
man who's led guinea for the past 10
years
the opposition is crying foul and has
been venting their anger on the streets
with deadly consequences says guinea's
security minister
katrina
full bodies of gunshot victims in the
morgues of donker and ignerstein
hospitals
one death from a stab wound two deaths
from firearms in kisi
those weren't the only victims of
guinea's post-election violence
and there are fears there will be more
on wednesday night
dlo called in his supporters to continue
their fight
in a twitter video posted from home
you are already fighting heroically in
kona cree and across the country
despite savage repression despite
arbitrary arrests and intimidation
this fight is heroic and it will
inevitably be victorious
the country now awaits the final results
of the election
but by the looks of the last few days
it's unlikely
they'll resolve the tension
let's go over to dw's west africa
correspondent fred mouvinho he is in
lagos hi fred it's good to see you
is some kind of a power sharing
compromise
plausible in guinea i say this because
when we've had similar instances
in other parts of the continent that's
what it's come down to
is it possible in guinea
um christina this uh main uh main rivals
in
guinea that is the incumbent president
and and
and the opposition figure diarro
this is the third time that that
actually they're they're contesting
so in the last two times there have been
nothing like this like
talking about power sharing so this time
no one knows whether they will
go up to that but what we know is that
the incumbent president
alfa conde has said that in case he wins
the election
he is willing to talk with opposition
okay the result is still in contention
um
but were there any independent election
observers for it and
and what have they said
so far the african union and the echoes
that's
uh the regional bloc of west africa
they have already declared that uh the
voting process was
transparent something that has been
disputed by the opposition
uh in iguini guinea and um
you have to know that they the the
opposition figure serudiaro
himself has declared a winner even
before the electoral commission
announces uh the the official result
so at this moment the observer said that
the
election electoral process was
transparent but
uh the people in guinea they contest
that
narrative okay fred just just coming
back to to these two men
contending uh for this presidency and as
if you rightfully told us
um it's the third time they're having a
go at it um
they've got both got big profiles in
guinea um
the incumbent though president alfa
conde is he more
than another old man clinging to power
well that seems to be the pattern
especially in the west africa
region where uh currently you see what
is happening in
ivory coast they have had to change the
the the constitution so that the
incumbent president can
run for a third time uh then that the
same thing happens in guinea
where african has actually been in power
for only two times for ten years
uh he has forced to change the
constitution so that he can
run for another time but people have to
know that this guy
cannot be in the same basket as other
people who have been
in power for two decades three decades
even four decades
he's just been in power for only two uh
two times that's ten years uh but but
then the
change of the constitution itself raises
questions
about his motives and his age also is
very questionable he's
82 years old fred
what about his main challenger chelu
delhi in diallo
he's no newcomer to political power is
he
yes he's very very known he has occupied
several ministerial posts under
president arasana conte that is
some couple of years ago he has been
also the prime minister
he's very very experienced politician
and he has also massive support from
franny community
which is really one of the biggest
ethnic group in guinea so he has massive
support
he has experience but of course he's
facing
a very strong incumbent president
fred when can we expect the final
official results from this election
thank you yeah the
final official results are expected uh
in eight days uh that means that after
the the the provisional results have
been announced
then the the the candidates have at
least eight
days to file a petition in supreme court
just in case they have uh they have
problems they question the results and
then the
the the constitutional court will
declare the final results
but if any candidate gets below 50
then there will be a second second round
which is
scheduled on 24th of november all right
that's fred muvuny
in lagos for us thank you fred
you're welcome
you