{"id":234489,"date":"2026-05-26T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guineas-may-elections-end-its-transition-but-will-they-bring-stability\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:29:37","slug":"guineas-may-elections-end-its-transition-but-will-they-bring-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guineas-may-elections-end-its-transition-but-will-they-bring-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea&#8217;s May Elections End Its Transition &#8211; but Will They Bring Stability?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Although authorities adhered to the ECOWAS timeline, Guinea&#8217;s return to democracy is mired in controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">On 31 May, 6.8 million citizens will choose their Members of Parliament (MPs) and municipal councillors in Guinea&#8217;s legislative and local elections. The polls are part of the ongoing process of returning to constitutional order, following the December 2025 presidential election won by President Mamady Doumbouya with 86.72% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">After Guinea&#8217;s 2021 coup, a transition <a href=\"https:\/\/gouvernement.gov.gn\/chronogramme-de-la-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">timetable<\/a> was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260401.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although authorities adhered to the ECOWAS timeline, Guinea&#8217;s return to democracy is mired in controversy. On 31 May, 6.8 million citizens will choose their Members of Parliament (MPs) and municipal councillors in Guinea&#8217;s legislative and local elections. The polls are part of the ongoing process of returning to constitutional order, following the December 2025 presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681497:333025144cb0393abf71c6b5ad333841:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,7826,821,1124,7672,257,254,9185,9711],"class_list":["post-234489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bring","tag-elections","tag-guinea-news","tag-guineas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stability","tag-transition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681497:333025144cb0393abf71c6b5ad333841:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}