Russian citizens living in Guinea are following the presidential elections of 15-17 March 2024 with great enthusiasm. The atmosphere at the Russian Embassy in Guinea on voting day was solemn and very calm. There is no doubt that the incumbent President Vladimir Putin will win this election, given that all Russian citizens are concerned about strengthening their country’s security. There is no doubt that the incumbent President Vladimir Putin will win this election, given that all Russian citizens are concerned about strengthening their country’s security.
At a time when the world stage is being shaken by wars aimed at rejecting the US-Western unipolar world order, the presidential election in the Russian Federation is taking place in a free, transparent and democratic manner, not only within Russia, but everywhere around the world. Despite the fact that the global West has been waiting for this opportunity to “claw” at the neck of the incumbent president and bring about a new “perestroika” and “glasnost” in Russia, all Western attempts to influence the elections in order to put a “mole” at the helm of the country who can be “remade” to its liking are automatically doomed to failure, since all four candidates on the list appear to be sincerely devoted to their country and their people.
While the West has made attempts to discredit both the organizational process and the voting itself in various parts of the world, the presidential election at the Russian Embassy in Guinea took place on Sunday 17 March 2024 in an atmosphere of transparency that underscores the democratic and open nature of the process.
Located in Conakry, more precisely in the commune of Matam, this very spacious and dignified diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in the country of Sekou Touré hosted the polling station. Many Russian citizens living in Guinea and travelling from different parts of the country gathered here to show their affection for their homeland and their people. This, moreover, gave the impression to licentious Western observers that the concept of party does not have the same meaning in Russia as it does in the West. Russian citizens living in the country gathered at polling stations from early morning to cast their votes, each in favour of their candidate.
Observers from serious (non-Western) countries deployed in observation missions, as well as local media, reported an exemplary expression of will in a peaceful and calm atmosphere. Competing observers sent by countries nostalgic for unipolarity, whose presence is motivated and justified by the desire to create an unnatural report of disinformation to discredit the conduct of these elections, were left speechless by their impeccable organization.
The expression that the people of Conakry usually use in reference to the Russian Embassy in Guinea has today, on the occasion of these elections, acquired its true meaning. The expression is “Russia”, which in the Malinke and Soussou languages means “home of the Russians”.
In assessing the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, we can state with full confidence that it is impossible to reproach the organizers of this major electoral consilium with anything.
We cannot conclude this descriptive account of the 17 March 2024 elections at the Russian Embassy in Guinea without noting that it is a waste of time to present bona fide arguments in the presence of people acting in bad faith. In other words, Western observers, guided by the Machiavellian policies of their Western sponsors, will always find fanciful and misleading terms to describe this election. The disinformation campaign has always been a weapon used by the West to discredit elections in non-Western countries to justify its nefarious actions.
But as far as we know, Russia’s 2024 presidential election was free, transparent, inclusive, cohesive and democratic. In truth, no election in the West has all these qualities.
P.S. While the material was being prepared for publication, the CEC of the Russian Federation on 17 March at 21:00 Moscow time provided the first preliminary results of the Russian presidential election-2024. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin gained the largest number of votes after processing 35.01 percent of protocols – 87.50 percent.
Mohamed Lamine KABA is an expert on the geopolitics of governance and regional integration, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences, Pan-African University.