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Guinea president to meet opposition leader over electoral process row

Xinhua, May 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Guinea President Alpha Conde will this Friday meet with the opposition leader and head of the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea Cellou Dalein Diallo, a source from the presidency said Tuesday.

The statement said Conde had sent a personal invitation to Diallo for a "face-to-face" meeting to discuss ways to ease the prevailing political crisis over the electoral process.

According to the statement, the meeting is part of the ongoing consultations with the Guinean political class over the country's electoral process.

The meeting between the two men will be used to analyse the national sociopolitical situation, in the run up to the Oct. 11 presidential elections as well as the communal elections set for early 2016.

For several months, the Guinean opposition has been organizing protests against the time table drawn up by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI).

The opposition announced that one person died and 20 others were injured while 50 others were arrested during protests organized on Monday.

To push the government to suspend CENI's time table, the opposition has called for more protests this Thursday and next Monday across all the major towns in the country. Endi