Although Guinea’s constitution allows only two consecutive terms in office, the country's current president, Alpha Condé, recently announced that he intended to seek a third term. To help achieve this, he has not hesitated to make calls to violence. In an analysis published on Horizon Guinée, Sonny Camara, a journalist based in Conakry (the country's capital), reported parts of a speech the president made on March 24, 2019: «Je laisse mon manteau de président de côté. Je prends mon manteau de militant, car maintenant je suis prêt à la bataille contre ces gens», «… Soyez prêts à l’affrontement… », «… Personne en Guinée ne m’empêchera d’aller devant le peuple pour lui demander ce qu’il veut… » « … Si c’est pour vous marcher sur les pieds, soyez prêts à marcher sur leurs pieds pour qu’ils sachent que vous n’avez peur de rien …» I will be taking off my president's hat. I am putting on my activist's hat, because now I am ready to fight against these people [in the opposition] […] Be ready for confrontation […] Nobody in Guinea will stop me from going before my people to ask them what they want [for the country] […] If [the opposition] wants to walk all over you, be ready to walk all over them so that they know that you are afraid of nothing. Condé was elected as President of Guinea in 2010 as the first freely elected president in the country's history. However, the 2010 elections were not without controversies as observers, including the Carter center reported that nearly 1 million voters’ ballot were lost from the final count. Condé was reelected in 2015 with almost 58 percent of the vote. in 2016, FRANCE 24 news channel reported that the mining company Rio Tinto paid Guinean government official $10.5 million for mining rights in the Simandou Region. A few months after his re-election in May 2015, Condé began to suggest his intention to seek a third term. Ibrahima Diallo, director of Liberté FM, a radio station in Conakry, highlighted this 2016 report on Nouvelles de Guinée: Mais, à entendre Alpha Condé dire à l’opinion publique nationale et internationale que le «souverain peuple» de Guinée décidera ou non d’un troisième mandat pour lui sous – entend que celui qui voulait être la «synthèse» de feu Mandela et d’Obama pour son pays est «pire» que ses prédécesseurs qu’il a toujours combattus durant sa vie d’éternel opposant. Aujourd’hui, quand Koro dit «c’est le peuple qui décidera», il veut juste faire porter par le vaillant peuple de Guinée le mérite pour lui de briguer «un éventuel mandat» après les deux consécutifs. But, to hear Alpha Condé say to national and international audiences that the ‘sovereign people’ of Guinea will decide whether or not he will have a third term implies that he who wanted to be the ‘synthesis’ of the late Mandela and Obama for his country is ‘worse’ than his predecessors, whom he has fought all his life as an eternal opponent. Today, when Koro (ed's note: nickname for Alpha Condé) says ‘it’s the people who will decide’, he just wants to make the valiant people of Guinea legitimize his seeking ‘a possible term’ after the two consecutive ones. Condé stuck to his plan by taking measures to ensure he avoided any bad surprises, including dismissing the president of the constitutional court, Kéléfa Sall, a move which did not follow legal procedure. Amadou Tham Camara, a reporter with Guinée News, wrote: Après le travail de sape qui avait été fait à la CENI, c’est ainsi la deuxième institution constitutionnelle en charge des élections nationales qui vient d’être irrémédiablement fragilisée. Dorénavant, pour le parti au pouvoir, il existe un boulevard pour avoir la majorité qualifiée des deux tiers des députés lors des élections législatives prévues au premier trimestre de 2019. Cette majorité étant la condition sine qua non pour entamer la révision de la constitution. C’est un pas de géant qui vient donc d’être franchi pour faire sauter le verrou constitutionnel qui bloque le nombre de mandat du président de la République à deux. After the undermining of the CENI [the national independent electoral commission], it is now the second constitutional institution in charge of national elections which has been irreparably weakened. From now on, for the party in power, there is an avenue to having the qualified majority of two thirds of deputies during the legislative elections scheduled for the first quarter of 2019. This majority being the necessary condition for initiating the revision of the constitution. It is thus a giant step which has been taken to break through the constitutional lock which limits the number of terms as President of the Republic at two.