The electoral commission of Guinea has said that results from the weekend’s parliamentary election could take days before the results are officially announced to the nation.
Guinea voted last Saturday on long delayed legislative elections that has already triggered violence and claimed some lives in the past few months.
Opposition leaders in the country have responded to the Electoral Commission that they will not accept any attempt made to rig the election in favor of the ruling RPG party led by President Alpha Condé.
Local reporters say a spokesman for the national electoral commission had originally suggested provisional results would be ready on Tuesday, 72 hours after the election has been held.
But Vice President of the electoral commission, El Hadji Ibrahim Kalil Keita came back to tell reporters that the commission had until within 72 hours of the arrival of the last voting sheets from polling stations to announce a result.
He said sheets trickling in from some 12,000 sites across the country could take several days as a result of poor road infrastructure and lack of communication equipments.
Leader of the opposition UFR party, Sidya Toure told reporters that his supporters would wait for the results to be officially announced but they would not accept any attempt to tamper with the results.
“We have all the results and the international observers have them too, we will not accept rigged results, if they do not reflect the will of the people, we will reject them”, the Reuters News Agency quoted him as saying.
But a spokesman for the ruling RPG party, Moustapha Naite said it had cleaned up at the election by winning majority of the seats and the opposition is trying to twist the outcome.
The European Union observers’ mission on Monday said the Electoral Commission had failed to fully correct problems with the voters list and urged the commission to publish results on a constituency basis to make them as transparent as possible to avoid any violence.
This legislative election has been touted by political analyst in Africa as the completion of the country’s transition to democracy after a bloody coup in 2008 that devastated the country democratic process.
Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News
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