Alpha Condé

Alpha Condé ( born March 4, 1938 in Boke, Western Guinea) is a Guinean politician, multiple presidential candidate and president of the party, Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée ( RPG). Since 21 December 2010, he is President of Guinea. He belongs to the people of the Mandinka.

Life and career

With 15 years of Condé emigrated to France, where he studied political science at the Sorbonne. As a Professor of Public Law, he worked more than ten years at the Faculty of Law of the Sorbonne and became involved, among other things, in the union of black African students in France ( FEANF ), where he was responsible for the coordination of different national groups 1967-1975. 1970 sentenced the former Guinean President Ahmed Sékou Touré to death in absentia. On 17 May 1991 Condé returned to Conakry.

Almost his entire adult life Condé fought against the various dictatorships that ruled Guinea until recently. In the presidential elections in Guinea in 1993, he won despite probably massive election fraud by the other side 19.55% of the vote. After he had come in the next presidential election in Guinea in 1998 to just over 16 % of the vote, he was to have on the charge of leaving the country illegally and recruited mercenaries to overthrow President Lansana Conté, arrested and sentenced to five years in prison, but in 2001 released early. As Alpha Condé was excluded in the presidential election in Guinea in 2003 on charges of conspiracy of the elections, President Lansana Conté was able to achieve good 95.6 percent of the vote against a background of widespread boycott of the opposition parties.

In the first round of the presidential election in Guinea 2010 Condé won 18.29 % of the vote and qualified as for the runoff election against former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo. In the runoff election on 7 November 2010, he received 52.52 % of votes. On December 3, the result of the Supreme Court was validated on 21 December, he took office as the new president.