CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) – Guinea’s election commission says incumbent President Alpha Conde has won a second term, receiving enough votes to avoid a runoff.
Bakary Fofana, the commission’s president, said Saturday night that Conde had won with nearly 58 percent of the Oct. 11 vote, besting leading opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo, who had 31 percent.
After the vote, Diallo and another opposition candidate alleged fraud and said they would not recognize the results. On Saturday, Diallo vowed to organize demonstrations against what he called an “electoral hold-up.”
The vote is only the second democratic presidential contest since Guinea gained independence from France in 1958.
Conde beat Diallo in a runoff in 2010. At least seven people were killed in election-related violence that year, and some 50 people died in the run-up to Guinea’s 2013 legislative elections, according to Human Rights Watch.