Various Guinean political leaders have called on the parties to participate in the national dialogue table in view of the transition process in Guinea agreed with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
This is the case of the former Prime Minister of Guinea Lansana Kouyaté, founder of the Party of Hope for National Development, who has assured Thursday that he is hopeful that the new transition process will come to fruition.
«Our history is tumultuous. It has lived through repeated coups d’état, military, but also constitutional. Will it be just another transition or a transition that will lay the foundations for peace in a clear reading of what the Guineans want, that is, democracy and development?
Kouyaté also explained that the dialogue, which will be inaugurated by the transitional Prime Minister, Bernard Goumou, should be attended by all the political forces of the country, since it is necessary that «all sit at the table». «It is a duty», he clarified, as reported by the Media Guinee news portal.
In the same line, the founder of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea, Amadou Bah Oury, has pronounced himself, who has explained that the «absentees are wrong». «They run the risk of missing the country’s history,» he said.
«There was an agreement between Guinea and ECOWAS that sets the duration of the transition at two years. So, from this point of view, Guinea and the regional community have agreed on the timetable. It is up to us, as Guinean political actors, to get to the bottom of things,» he has sentenced.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Guinean authorities developed a timetable to consolidate the transition to democracy in 24 months, with the timetable starting on January 1, 2023.
Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, commander of the Guinean Special Forces, along with 500 men, staged a coup d’état in the African country on September 5, 2021. The military entered the Séjoutouréya Palace and captured the then President Alpha Condé, thus ending eleven years of regime.
The coup in Guinea took place after months of political crisis in the country due to Condé’s decision to modify the Constitution to run for a third term and his victory in the 2020 presidential elections, in which the other candidates, including the opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, denounced fraud.
