# Government confirms presidential election will slip into 2025

Date: 2024

Foreign Affairs Minister Morissanda Kouyaté announced that the presidential election would take place in 2025 rather than by the end of 2024, confirming that the 24-month ECOWAS transition benchmark would not be met.

## Drivers

- Doumbouya junta transition: https://factrail.ai/drivers/doumbouya-junta-transition

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/guinea
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/02/guinea-rights-risk-promised-transition-derails

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/guinea-election-transition-deadline-slips-2024-09-18