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schema:articleBody	Guinea has voted to back a contested new constitution, the country's electoral body said Friday, against critics who fear the move is a ploy to extend President Alpha Conde's grip on power. The proposal to change the constitution has proved hugely controversial in the West African state, spurring mass demonstrations in which at last 32 people have been killed, according to an AFP tally. The president of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Amadou Salifou Kebe, told reporters that 91.59 percent of ballots were in favour of adopting the new constitution, while 8.41 percent were against. Turnout was 61 percent, he added, saying that these were provisional figures. The vote was originally planned for March 1 but was postponed until March 22 because of international criticism of its fairness. The authorities went ahead with it after scrubbing some 2.5 million unverifiable names from its electoral register, following advice from the West Africa bloc ECOWAS. The day of the vote was marred by violence, however, with scores of polling stations ransacked across the country and, according to the country's political opposition, dozens killed. Authorities have said only a few deaths occurred on polling day, and that the voting took place in peace. Conde, 82, is a former opposition figure who was jailed under previous hardline regimes. In 2010, he made history as the first democratically-elected president in a country with a chronic history of military coups and turmoil. Voters returned him to office in 2015 for his second and final five-year term under the current constitution, but critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian. The government argues that the constitution needs to be updated to usher in badly-needed social changes, especially for women. Reforms would include banning female genital mutilation and under-age marriage and giving spouses equal rights in a divorce. The draft charter would limit presidential terms to two but extend the length of the term to six years, potentially enabling Conde to govern for another 12 years. Conde has not denied that he might use the proposed changes to seek another term when his second and final runs out this year under the current constitution. bm/eml/ri
schema:headline	Guinea voters overwhelmingly back disputed new constitution
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