CONAKRY: Guinean leader Alpha Conde was re-elected to a second term in the first round of the country's disputed presidential polls, according to provisional results released on Friday.
Results published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, from areas representing over 90 per cent of the electoral roll, showed Conde winning an outright majority with nearly 2.2 million votes.
Turnout in the October 11 election, which his main rival Cellou Dalein Diallo has denounced as a "masquerade", was put at around 66 percent, well below an initial estimate of 75 percent.
One suburb of the capital Conakry and the overseas votes cast by Guineans living in New York have yet to be counted.
The opposition has said that Sunday's vote, only the second democratic presidential poll since Guinea gained independence from France in 1958, was marred by widespread fraud and mismanagement, and demanded a re-run.
Conde, 77, had gone into the campaign promising to deliver a "KO blow" to his seven opponents by winning victory at the first round, avoiding a run-off against his closest rival.
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