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In Guinea, the deadline for political parties to reorganize expired at the end of January. In a report published in October 2024, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, after assessing 211 political parties to "clean up the country's political scene", dissolved 53 of them and placed around 100 "under observation", giving them three months to comply with the law. This measure prompted the political parties concerned, such as the Bloc Libéral (BL), to comply with the law. For its part, the Union des Forces Démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG) has officially convened an extraordinary national congress in Conakry in April 2025, as the authorities' report criticized it for not having renewed its governing bodies for some time. However, the Rassemblement du peuple Guinéen (RPG) is slow to comply with the ministerial authority's demands. The party's  spokesman, questioned about the measures to be taken following the Ministry's report, asserts that the "information requested by the authorities has been provided by the RPG". As for the Congress, the delegate maintains that it is "the exclusive responsibility of the party".  

The measures taken by Guinea's transitional authorities to streamline the country's political parties are seen by many as a multi-faceted pressure tactic on political players and human rights defenders in the run-up to the upcoming general elections. These restrictions on the political class, the media and civil society have been denounced in a United Nations report. The report notes a "growing and worrying erosion of social cohesion in Guinea", a "deterioration of democratic space and a narrowing of civic space and the rule of law". The UN experts also raised concerns about "the lack of clarity on the timetable for a return to constitutional order", "the lack of consensus around the new Constitution" and the "potential participation of transition leaders in a future presidential election".

As far as elections are concerned, and in particular the presidential election, it's all a blur. While the transition period negotiated with the international community in the wake of the 2021 coup d'état came to an end on December 31, the dates put forward for the return to constitutional order are multiplying and contradicting each other. In his New speechYear's , the President of the Transition declared that "2025 will be a crucial electoral year to complete the return to constitutional order" and that "a date for a referendum to adopt a new constitution will be announced within the next three months". This announced date was contradicted by the government spokesman, who in turn announced that the referendum held constitutional would be "at the end of the first half of the year", before adding in front of the press that "it would be impossible to hold all the elections in 2025", whereas the Minister of Foreign Affairs had assured us at the end of the year that "all the elections would be held this year".