Guinean military junta leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, on Wednesday, named Mohamed Beavogui as the country’s new prime minister who will preside over a promised transition back to democratic rule following a coup in September, reported Reuters.
Col. Mamady Doumbouya, who was sworn in as interim president by Supreme Court head Mamadou Sylla on Friday, announced Beavogui’s new appointment in a decree read on state TV late Wednesday.
The 68-year-old Beavogui has a notable career in development. He served as U.N. Undersecretary-General in charge of the Pan-African Risk Management Mutual in New York before holding other positions within the U.N.’s International Fund for Agricultural Development and Food and Agriculture Organization.
The new Guinean transitional prime minister will be responsible to implement the transition charter that will pave way for the formation of a civilian government.
Interim President Doumbouya has already announced that no member of the junta would be allowed to contest in any future elections that will be organized after the transition period.
He said his administration’s mission was to refound the state by drafting a new constitution, fighting corruption, reforming the electoral system, and organizing free, credible, and transparent elections in the country.
The military junta has already outlined its transition government charter and pledged to organize democratic elections, but, it has yet to set a certain timeframe for doing so.
The September 5 coup overthrew 83-year old President Alpha Conde, whose popularity had dropped after he pursued a third term saying term limits didn’t apply to him.
Last year he passed a controversial new Guinean constitution that made him eligible to run for a third term in the October 2020 election. The move resulted in mass demonstrations in which hundreds of protesters were killed. Conde won re-election but the political opposition and critics rejected the results.
The deposed leader has currently been kept in an undisclosed location.
