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Exclusively on RFI and France 24, Alpha Condé says he is not seeking a life presidency. Following a change in the constitution, the Guinean President is seeking a third term in the presidential election on October 18. But he says: "It's extraordinary that I am considered an anti-democratic dictator! I am a democrat." Alpha Condé says his past speaks in his favor. Asked about the ambition of a life presidency attributed to him by his opponents, he replies that he has been fighting for democracy for 44 years. "I was imprisoned under Sékou Touré. I won the 1993 elections. If I had wanted to be president for life, I would have taken power [with the support of the military] in 1993," he says. If he is re-elected on October 18 for a third term, will it be his last term? The outgoing president, who is 82 years old, evades the question and asserts that, for October 18, we must not sell the bear's skin before... [having killed it]. Implied: we must not cry victory too quickly. To the question: "Will you recognize your defeat if necessary?", he replies: "I am a democrat." Without ever mentioning the name of his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo, he attacks him without restraint by accusing him of having been a "gravedigger" of the Guinean economy at the time when he was Prime Minister of President Lansana Conté. To those who accuse him of instrumentalizing the ethnic question, the Guinean head of state replies vehemently that this is false, that he is pan-African and that once again, his past speaks in his favor. He claims that when he opposed Sékou Touré, many Malinké criticized him for his closeness to the Peuls. Finally, 11 years after the massacre in the stadium of September 28 in Conakry, Alpha Condé believes that the trial of the alleged assassins will take place. Time, he specifies, for the ad hoc tribunal to be built... with the help of donors. --- Subscribe to find all RFI videos: https://rfi.my/YTfr --- All our Guinea articles on rfi.fr: https://www.rfi.fr/fr/tag/guin%C3%A9e/