Presidential election in Guinea: Head of ECOWAS Election Observation Mission (EOM) begins meetings with election stakeholders

Mr Abdoulie Janneh, head of the EOM deployed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Guinea, arrived in Conakry on 23 December 2025 and began meetings with key players in the presidential election on 28 December 2025.

On 24 December 2025, he met with the heads of election missions from the African Union, the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) and the Mano River Union, the Secretary General of the Guinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Guineans Abroad, representing Minister H.E. Morissanda Kouyaté.

Mr Abdoulie Janneh and the other heads of mission then paid a courtesy visit to the First President of the Supreme Court, Mr Fodé Bangoura, and to Prime Minister H.E. Amadou  Oury BAH.

‘We are here to offer ECOWAS’ support and solidarity to the Republic of Guinea for peaceful, free and transparent presidential elections… We welcome the Guinean authorities’ commitment to organising successful elections and their desire to fully regain their place in the ECOWAS family,’ said Mr Abdoulie Janneh after all these meetings with the Guinean authorities.

As a reminder, on 9 November, the Guinean Supreme Court validated the candidacy of nine candidates for the presidential election, scheduled for 28 December, including the president of the military transition, General Mamadi Doumbouya. Approximately 6.7 million voters will be called to the polls out of an estimated population of more than 14 million.

The President of the Republic of Guinea is elected by a two-round, first-past-the-post system for a seven-year term, renewable once. If no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round, a second round is held between the two leading candidates fourteen days after the announcement of the first round results, and the candidate with the most votes is declared elected.

This election will determine the future president of the republic and mark the end of the transition and the return to constitutional order in Guinea following the adoption of the new Constitution by referendum on 21 September 2025.