Guinea’s Supreme Court on Sunday officially validated junta leader Mamady Doumbouya’s overwhelming presidential election win, confirming he secured 86.72% of the vote.
The ruling cements the provisional results announced earlier last week following the December 28 election, which notably excluded major opposition figures from the ballot. Runner-up Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé garnered 6.59% of votes, unchanged from the preliminary count.
Baldé, who had initially challenged the results at the Supreme Court, “voluntarily withdrew” his complaint, the Court’s first president, Fode Bangoura, said while announcing the final tally.
In his first address to the nation after the confirmation, Doumbouya struck a unifying tone, urging citizens to focus on nation-building rather than political divisions.
“Today, there are neither winners nor losers. There is only one Guinea, united and indivisible,” the president-elect said in a broadcast late Sunday. He called on Guineans to work together to “build a new Guinea, a Guinea of peace, justice, shared prosperity, and fully assumed political and economic sovereignty.”
Doumbouya initially seized power in a 2021 coup that removed President Alpha Condé. This year’s presidential election, widely viewed as a move to legitimise his rule, has now secured formal confirmation of his leadership from the country’s highest court.
Melissa Enoch
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