Guinea’s Supreme Court on Sunday officially confirmed a sweeping victory for junta leader Mamady Doumbouya in the country’s presidential election, awarding him 86.72% of the vote.
The ruling validates provisional results announced earlier last week after the December 28 poll, which was held without the participation of major opposition figures.
Doumbouya’s closest challenger, Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, secured 6.59% of the vote, a figure unchanged from the provisional tally. Baldé had initially contested the results before the Supreme Court but later withdrew his challenge voluntarily, according to the court’s first president, Fodé Bangoura, who announced the final results.
In his first national address following the court’s decision, Doumbouya struck a conciliatory tone, calling for unity.
“Today, there are neither winners nor losers. There is only one Guinea, united and indivisible,” he said in a televised speech late Sunday. He urged citizens to work together to “build a new Guinea, a Guinea of peace, justice, shared prosperity, and fully assumed political and economic sovereignty.”
Doumbouya seized power in a 2021 military coup that removed former president Alpha Condé. The recent election has been widely viewed as an effort to legitimize his continued hold on power.
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