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Legislative elections were held in Guinea on 28 September 2013 after numerous delays and postponements. President Alpha Condé's party, the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), won a plurality of seats in the National Assembly of Guinea, with 53 out of 114 seats. The opposition parties won a total of 53 seats, and opposition leaders denounced the official results as fraudulent. ==Date== The election was originally planned to be held in June 2007, but was postponed to December 2007 due to a general strike in January and February, which resulted in the appointment of a new government and Prime Minister.〔() 〕 It was, however, subsequently considered likely that the election would be postponed another time to around March 2008 due to delays in setting up the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) and the need for revision of electoral lists. A date for the election in November or December 2008 has been proposed.〔http://www.afriquenligne.fr/actualites/politique/guinee%3a-vers-l%27organisation-des-legislatives-en-fin-2008-2008021316711/〕 On 11 October 2007, Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté expressed regret regarding slowness in the organization of the election and said that it would be difficult to hold the election by December. Political parties had difficulty reaching an agreement on how many members should be on CENI.〔http://www.afriquenligne.fr/actualites/politique/vers-un-report-probable-des-legislatives-en-guinee-2007101210486/〕 CENI was established in November 2007. On 12 February 2008, an ''ad hoc'' commission responsible for determining a timetable for the election proposed that it be held between 23 November and 14 December 2008.〔 Following the replacement of Kouyaté by Ahmed Tidiane Souaré in May 2008, the International Crisis Group released a report on 23 June 2008 expressing doubt about the likelihood of the election being held before the end of 2008. This report expressed concern that a delay might "compromise economic revival and bury the independent commission of inquiry tasked with identifying and prosecuting authors of the 2007 crackdown". CENI President Chiekh Fantamady Condé said that he was "convinced" that the election would be held in 2008, however.〔 Ben Sékou Sylla, the President of CENI, announced on 20 October 2008, that the election was being delayed and would be held in the second half of March 2009 at the earliest. He cited difficulties with biometric voter registration, as well as a "delay in setting up structures to register voters and supervise the elections" and a "delay in funding". Sidya Touré of the Union of Republican Forces, an opposition party, denounced the decision as "a political delay, not a technical one"; he also claimed that the government was unwilling to finance CENI and was inhibiting CENI's work. Touré warned against any further delay, saying that it would "lead to further despair and fresh protests". Sekou Konate, the Secretary-General of the governing Party of Unity and Progress (PUP), reacted positively to the delay: "People prefer a delay much more than having war straight away. If we do not have a clean electoral roll, we risk having things go wrong." According to Konate, holding the parliamentary election together with the 2009 local elections or the 2010 presidential election was out of the question. On 19 December 2008, it was announced that the election would be held on 31 May 2009. After the military coup d'état in December 2008, civilian and political groups proposed to hold them in November 2009, before presidential elections in December 2009. The government set them for 11 October 2009 in late March 2009. The election was then again delayed until 16 March 2010. Following a political agreement and the 2010 presidential election, the parliamentary election was delayed again.〔( IFES kicks off first BRIDGE Train the Facilitators Course in Guinea ) Bridge Project, 4 March 2011〕 In September 2011, the election date was announced as 29 December 2011. but in early December it was postponed again for security reasons and lack of organization until July 2012.〔http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/18/62422953.html〕 In April 2012, the election was postponed indefinitely by Guinea President Alpha Condé. After a reshuffle in the Electoral Commission, the election was announced to be planned for 12 May 2013. They were later delayed to 30 June and then to 28 July. The date was moved again in early July, to 24 September, following a UN-mandated agreement between the parties. On 19 September, opposition leader Diallo called protests for Monday, 23 September, complaining of irregularities in voter lists and polling stations that would be impossible to fix before the 24 September elections. On 21 September, the UN mediator for Guinea announced a further delay to 28 September following talks between the parties, and the opposition cancelled their scheduled protests.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guinean legislative election, 2013」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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