Guinea’s new prime minister, Mohamed Beavogui, pledged on Thursday to carry out the ruling military’s plan to restore civilian authority in the West African country.
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power last month, said the “major directions” of his government will accord with those previously proclaimed by Beavogui.
Guinea’s junta named Beavogui, a veteran of international development, as prime minister on Wednesday.
The appointment came after Doumbouya’s September 5 coup toppled elected president Alpha Conde.
On October 1, Doumbouya, a 37-year-old former special-forces commander, was inaugurated in as the country’s interim president. He has promised to return the country to civilian government.
The junta also unveiled a so-called transition charter late last month that includes plans to revise the constitution and hold “free, democratic and transparent elections.”
On Thursday, Prime Minister Beavogui, 68, said he would follow the transition charter, pledging a government of what he called “deliverables.”
“We have a shared view on what this country should be,” Beavogui said, referring to strongman Doumbouya.
“I am fully committed, I am ready and I will give him all my support”.
Beavogui, an engineering graduate, has had a prestigious career in international development, including with the United Nations.
His lack of experience in national government potentially distances him from Guinea’s vicious political infighting.
Last month’s coup ousted 83-year-old Conde after months of brewing discontent with his administration in the turbulent nation of 13 million people.
A former opposition figure, Conde became Guinea’s first democratically elected president in 2010 and was re-elected in 2015.
But last year, Conde pushed through a new constitution enabling him to run for a third term in October 2020.
The move sparked mass demonstrations in which dozens of protesters were killed. Conde won the election but the political opposition maintained the poll was a sham.