Guinea’s transitional government is making every effort to hold both presidential and parliamentary elections in December, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah has told AFP.
The country, currently under military rule, has been under pressure to return to civilian leadership. Junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya has already declared that 2025 would be a decisive electoral year and has announced a constitutional referendum scheduled for 21 September. However, no official dates have been set for the presidential or legislative polls.
Speaking by telephone to AFP on Tuesday, Bah said: “We haven’t set a date, but everything is being done to make sure it happens at the end of the year, in December. The referendum on September 21 and the two major elections, coupled, at the end of the year, in December.”
He added that the country was focused on voter registration efforts, which he described as crucial for compiling the electoral roll. “Everyone is mobilised for registration everywhere, both in the interior of the country and in the capital, because that is what will be decisive,” Bah explained.
Guinea’s military leadership seized power in 2021 and, under mounting international scrutiny, initially committed to a constitutional referendum and a handover to an elected civilian government by the end of 2024. However, neither of those milestones were achieved as planned.
