GUINEA: Term limits erased

In Guinea, octogenarian President Alpha Condé won a third term in October, after pushing through a constitutional referendum in March that reset presidential term limits to enable him to run again. The term limits proposal was bundled in with a range of other measures that might be more popular and could be positioned internationally as liberalising, including measures to advance women’s rights and benefit young people: changes the president could have pursued at any time in his two terms without erasing term limits.