{"id":10872,"date":"2010-07-04T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=10872"},"modified":"2010-07-04T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:00:43","slug":"guinea-election-goes-to-run-off-as-diallo-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=10872","title":{"rendered":"Guinea election goes to run-off as Diallo falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guinea will hold a run-off in its presidential election later this month after the former prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, fell short of a majority in the first round on 27 June.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo is the frontrunner )<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election commission said Mr Diallo took 39.72% of the vote, well ahead of the veteran opposition leader, Alpha Conde, who got 20.67%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first democratic election in the mineral-rich West African state since it gained independence from France in 1958.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been governed by a military junta for the past 18 months since the death of its longtime leader, Gen Lansana Conte, in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Court challenge<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alpha Conde&#8217;s party has said it will challenge some poll results in the courts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Candidates have until 8 July to contest the results in the Supreme Court, which must then make its ruling within three days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all, 24 candidates contested the first round of the elections. Voter turnout was 77%, said the election commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second round is scheduled to take place on 18 July, but may be delayed until later in the month or early August for logistical reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Diallo served several terms as prime minister under Gen Conte, who came to power during a military coup in 1984.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine months ago, Mr Diallo was badly injured when the military opened fire on demonstrators opposed to the junta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guinea is the world&#8217;s largest exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite. It also has important deposits of iron ore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite its mineral wealth, the country is one of the poorest in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea will hold a run-off in its presidential election later this month after the former prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, fell short of a majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[3952,3122],"class_list":["post-10872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-cellou-dalein-diallo","tag-guinea-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}