The candidacy of General Mamadi Doumbouya for the presidential election of December 28, 2025, barely filed with the Supreme Court, is already sparking strong opposition.

The Forces vives de Guinée, in a statement released on Monday, denounced a "perjury" by the president of the transition and accused him of having betrayed the commitments he had made to the Guinean people and the international community.

According to this coalition of political, trade union and civil society organizations, "the people of Guinea have just witnessed, without surprise but with deep consternation, the formalization of the perjury of Mamadi Doumbouya, who announced his candidacy for the presidential election of December 28th."

The Forces vives believe that this decision marks a disastrous turning point in the country's history: "the one where the man who presented himself as the restorer of democracy chose to become its gravedigger," the statement emphasizes.

According to them, by running for office, General Doumbouya would be violating the Transition Charter, specifically Article 46, which clearly states that "the president and members of the National Committee of the Rally for Development may not run in the national and local elections marking the end of the transition."

The Forces Vives also recall Article 25, paragraph 4, of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, according to which "those responsible for unconstitutional changes of government must neither participate in elections organized for the restoration of democratic order, nor hold positions of responsibility in the political institutions of their State."

The declaration goes further, offering a critical assessment of the current regime: "massive human rights violations, manipulation of the justice system, endemic corruption, and drastic restrictions on civil liberties." It specifically cites the unpunished killing of more than 60 young protesters, enforced disappearances, suspicious deaths in custody, and acts of torture.

Faced with this situation, the Guinean civil society groups announce that they categorically reject the candidacy of Mamadi Doumbouya and call for a peaceful but determined national mobilization:

"Let us mobilize massively, with dignity and determination, to thwart, by all means, Mamadi Doumbouya's desire to destroy the democratic gains our people have won through hard struggle and heavy sacrifices."

The statement concludes with a meaningful quote:

"When a people no longer defends its freedoms and rights, it becomes ripe for slavery."