The Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée (RPG in power) chose this Thursday, August 6, 2020 the outgoing president Alpha Condé (82 years old) as its presidential candidate on October 18, 2020.
It’s official. At the end of its national convention started on Wednesday and completed on Thursday, the ruling party in Guinea-Conakry, the Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée (RPG Arc-en-ciel) has appointed the head of state of Guinea as its candidate. in the presidential election on Sunday, October 18, 2020.
The announcement was made this afternoon at the closing of the rainbow RPG convention at the People’s Palace: “A choice made unanimously”, according to Djakagbè Kaba, member of the RPG’s national political bureau. Rainbow who read the resolution.
For his part, Hadja Nantenin Chérif Konaté assured that “our choice is called Alpha”, inviting the president present in the room in the following words “comrade Alpha Condé, agree to be our candidate for the presidential election”.
Although nominated as a candidate at the end of this national convention, Alpha Condé has not yet spoken on the question of his candidacy since the referendum vote on the new constitution in March. He has just agreed to repeat for months: “It is my party that will decide”.
Yet this new constitution paves the way for the head of state, elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2015, for a third term.
Regardless, the announcement of his appointment was greeted with thunderous applause from the hall. This choice was widely known, especially since the outgoing president was the only candidate for his party’s candidacy.
All the regional delegates of the party had already chosen him. Some 350 RPG executives had gathered since Wednesday in the grounds of the People’s Palace as part of the convention.
At the same time, the Democratic Coalition for Change in Continuity (Codecc, presidential majority and more than 200 organizations) had appointed Alpha Condé on Monday at its convention to be its candidate in October.
This candidacy of President Condé, backed by the new constitution, is still contested by the opposition united in the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC).
The FNDC, which had planned a protest march Thursday against the third candidacy of the outgoing president, finally postponed it to a later date.
Reference: https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20200805
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