Guinea’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is considering posting the provisional voters’ list on March 22 in order to make corrections if necessary, an operation that will span two weeks throughout the national territory.
In so doing, the INEC wants to make corrections already made to the census in a bid to produce a final list that would suffer from no dispute ahead of the presidential election scheduled for June 27.
It also announced the end of registration within the country.
Guinea’s electoral body is also striving to register Guineans living abroad who are claiming their right to participate in the elections while the Commission had recommended that they should be left out because the electoral timetable was getting near.
The INEC chairman, Ben Sekou Sylla, had argued that until then only 56,000 voters had been recorded outside of Guinea.
The operations were interrupted abroad following the unfortunate events of September 28, 2009 which claimed 156 deaths in the largest stadium in Conakry. But with the intervention of the President of the transition, it was decided to register them.
Thereafter, a process of voter registration began in 17 embassies adopted for this purpose since March 18 for a period of two weeks.
Source African Press Agency
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