According to preliminary figures announced late Tuesday, Junta leader General Mamadi Doumbouya won Guinea’s presidential election.The election is the first presidential contest since the coup that removed President Alpha Condé in 2021 and is widely seen as an effort to legitimize Doumbouya’s reign in power.
According to preliminary statistics announced on Tuesday, he received 86. 7 percent of the votes counted thus far.
“After centralizing, verifying, and compiling the provisional results of the first round of the presidential election on December 22, 2025, in strict accordance with the law, I hereby declare that Mr. Mamadi Doumbouya, candidate of the GMD, is provisionally declared elected in the presidential election of December 28, 2025, having obtained an absolute majority of the valid votes cast,” Djenabou Touré, of Guinea’s General Directorate of Elections, told reporters on Tuesday.
Doumbouya is competing against eight other candidates, but the opposition has been weakened by a crackdown on opposition and the disbanding of more than 50 political groups. Major opposition contenders have either been banned from running or are now in exile.
Yéro Baldé, a former education minister in Condé’s administration, finished far behind with 6. 5% of the vote.
According to the directorate, 80. 9% of the 6. 7 million registered voters cast ballots.The election was held under a revised constitution ratified in a referendum in September. It overturns a restriction on military officials running for office and expands the presidential term from five to seven years.
Despite Guinea’s enormous mineral resources, including the world’s largest bauxite exporter, more than half of its 15 million inhabitants are suffering unprecedented levels of poverty and food shortages, according to the World Food Program.
