Guinea (a West African nation under military-led rule since a 2021 coup) held legislative and municipal elections on Sunday, with counting now underway after roughly seven million eligible voters were called to elect 147 members of parliament. The vote is being presented as a key step toward restoring democratic rule under interim President Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, who won a seven-year presidential term in December facing no serious opposition. However, turnout was reportedly low in the capital Conakry and the city of Labé, with many voters saying they did not recognise the candidates — most of whom came from the presidential camp after the government dissolved major opposition parties in March. Critics called the elections an "electoral farce" designed to entrench what they described as a new dictatorship, a concern echoed by a recent warning from the Institute for Studies and Security that the country's political structures risk being dominated by a single force.