Conakry, Guinea (CNN) -- Guinea once again has postponed the second round of voting in its presidential election, the new head of the West African country's National Independent Electoral Commission announced Friday.
Gen. Siaka Toumani Toure, the Malian general who replaced controversial commission chief Louseny Camara on Tuesday, said it "is not possible" to hold the run-off vote between the two candidates, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Conde, on Sunday as planned.
No new date was set for the next round of voting.
The ballot was initially scheduled to be held two weeks after the first round voting, which occurred June 27. Diallo won 44 percent and Conde 18 percent.
The second round already had been postponed three times because of technical problems, mismanagement and internal disputes.
Camara had been accused by Diallo's UFDG party of supporting Conde and stealing ballots from a populous Conakry suburb where Camara served as poll administrator.
Camara has denied the accusations, but on Thursday he was sentenced to a year in prison and fined 2,000,000 Guinean francs (about $300) by Conakry courts for fraud in the first round.
"We have no comment yet about the new delay," said Moustapha Naite, a spokesman for Alpha Conde's RPG party.
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