Public statement   par Tournons la Page

The recent political history of the Republic of Guinea has been marked by the rise to power of the army taken after the deaths of the first and second presidents of the Republic in 1984 and 2008 respectively.

These undemocratic and unconstitutional seizures of power by the Guinean army have always been legitimized by the massive support of a hopeless people traumatized by the regime of the late President. Through the scenes of popular lies that accompany these power grabs, Guineans reject the system that impoverishes them and express their thirst for freedom and change.

In the absence of strong, legitimate and legal institutions, the international community is confused with reality and ends up accompanying the dynamics underway for a return to normal order.

The hope for change that the civilian population had nurtured quickly turned to disenchantment, as the new occupants of the palace, immersed in the privileges of power, tried to hold on to power and resorted to the system rejected by the people.

Drawing lessons from this situation of a perpetual return to square one, the nation's active forces, accompanied by the International Contact Group, succeeded in 2010 in providing Guinea with a constitution within which the modes of accession and transmission of power were framed in order to avoid power for life and a return of the army to the palace.

Alpha Conde, the first beneficiary of these democratic advances, has against all odds the effort of all and the general interest of the Guinean nation to put forward his personal interest entining the constitution of 2010 in the only but to be able to maintain himself to the life.

So, are we still moving towards the return of the army to power?

Alpha Conde, through his speeches and actions, is working for a return of the army to power. Since the first hours of his accession to power, Alpha Conde has always sought to subdue the Presidents of the institutions and, failing that, to fire them. This was the case with Kelefa Sall, who was ejected from the constitutional court under conditions that no one has forgotten. Today, he deprives the presidents of institutions, suspected of presidential ambition or desire for independence, of their operating budget. He goes so far as to provoke and encourage internal disputes and mismanagement against them in order to give reasons for submission or revelation, because he cannot accept the separation of powers and the independence of the institutions that are the foundations of the rule of law.

Second, in his blind quest for power for life, Alpha Conde is unfortunately depriving Guinea of a legitimate and legal parliament.

In the end, at each of his meetings with the armed forces, the dictator Alpha Conde declares: "There have never been coups d'état in Guinea. Conde took power after the death of President Ahmed Sekou Toure. The army took power after the death of President Conté.

By making these statements with insistence to the armed forces, is Alpha Conde telling them not to rush and wait for his death to take power as they did with his predecessors? In any case, our country is already in an unconstitutional situation since the civil coup perpetrated by the Guinean dictator and his accomplices. During his lifetime or at his death, our country is already plunged into an unprecedented socio-political crisis. Ibrahima DIALLO FNDC Operations Manager Coordinator of Tournons La Page in Guinea our country is already plunged into an unprecedented socio-political crisis.

Ibrahima DIALLO

FNDC Operations Manager

Coordinator of Tournons La Page in Guinea