Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, Commander of the Special Forces who overthrew Alpha Conde on September 5th, appointed a veteran Prime Minister of Development, without government experience.
Le Monde with AFP
One month after coming to power following a putsch, the new President of Transition in the Republic of Guinea, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, appointed, Wednesday, October 6, Mohamed Beavogui, a veteran of development without government experience. , as Prime Minister. Colonel Doumbouya, Commander of the Special Forces who overthrown Alpha Conde on September 5, thus holds his promise to appoint a civilian prime minister, a personality away from domestic politics and unspickd to participate in the intestinal quarrels of recent years.
Mohamed Beavogui, a 68-year-old development veteran, “former UNDER-Secretary-General of the United Nations, is appointed Prime Minister of Transition, Head of Government”, according to the decree Wednesday night on public television. From the putsch, the one who took an oath as President of Transition Friday promised to gather the Guineans, beyond political or ethnic affiliations.
m. Béavogui is the son of a diplomat from Macenta, in Forest Guinea (southern region) and the nephew by his mother of Diallo Telli, first Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), death in 1977 at Camp Boiro, Prison symbol of the repressive regime of Guinean’s “Father of Independence”, Sekou Touré. Graduate of Engineering in Russia, an expert in the financing of agricultural development and risk management, he has held several positions with responsibilities, in the private sector or in international institutions, including in the UN system.
“Refoundation of the state”
The junta said that it would make power to civilians after elections at the end of a transition period. During this transitional period, she says he wants to carry out a “refoundation of the state”, write a new constitution, fight against corruption, reform the electoral system and organize elections. But it still has not fixed the duration of this transition or specified the political content of its plans.
The new leader of the Government will have to propose ministers to Colonel Doumbouya and, “within a period not exceeding thirty days” after the appointment of ministers, submit “the Government’s plan of actions”, has the “Charter “, sort of basic act of the transition published on September 27th. The government and its leader fully respond to Colonel Doumbouya, which approves the names proposed as ministers and can revoke them, just like the head of government. The government “executes and conducts the policy of the nation defined by the President of the Transition,” says the Charter. In addition, no member of the transition institutions can present “nor to the national elections or local elections that will be organized to mark the end of the transition”.
The Community of West African States, worried about instability and a contagion effect of coups, claimed presidential and legislative elections within six months. She decided to freeze the financial assets of the members of the junta and their families and to prohibit them of travel. But the experts agree that Colonel Dumbouya seems to take the time to carry out his projects.