Guinean president considers constitutional amendments and referendum to remove presidential term limits

By Samira Sawlani, 26 April 2019
Guinean president Alpha Condé (photo credit: Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
Guinean president Alpha Condé (photo credit: Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
The billboard outside Guinea’s National Assembly building reads: “I am young. Yes to a referendum. Yes to a new Constitution. We support you for life.” Similar signs have popped up in other parts of the country. The publicity campaign is in support of a constitutional referendum to scrap term limits, which would allow President Alpha Condé to run for a third or even fourth term in office. Third-termism, the catch-all phrase for presidents looking to extend their stay in power beyond constitutionally mandated limits, has well and truly arrived in Guinea.
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