Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) announced on Monday night that Alpha Conde had won the country's second round of presidential elections. Conde got 52.52 percent of the votes cast, beating his challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo, who got 47.48 percent of the tally in the Nov. 7 run-off race. The winner of the presidential elections was known four months after the country held the first round held on June 27. Figures announced by CENI at the People's Palace in the capital Conakry showed that out of the 4,270,531 registered voters, 2,898, 233 went to the polls, marking a turnout of 67.67 percent. Out of the 2,808,339 valid votes, Conde managed to get 1,474, 973 against 1,333,666 for Diallo. The president of the Supreme Court has three days to confirm the results which are still provisional. A Xinhua correspondent in Conakry spotted hundreds of Conde's supporters rushing to the streets to celebrate his victory immediately after the announcement. The publication of the provisional results, eight days after the voting exercise, was made at a time when tension was building up in Conakry. Eyewitnesses said at least one person was killed during confrontations in the street between the security forces and demonstrators. Earlier in the day, both candidates had claimed to have won the election before the official announcement of the results by CENI. The partial results that were being published by CENI since Nov. 9 had showed that Conde and Diallo were running neck to neck. Guinea was under the control of a military junta after December 2008, when the military orchestrated a coup d'etat following the death of then president Lansana Conte, who had been in power for 24 years. On Sept. 28, 2009, the military opened fire on a crowd attending an opposition rally in a Conakry stadium protesting against the rule by the junta. The United Nations then launched a probe into the crackdown in which a local human rights organization said 157 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured. Hundreds of women were reportedly raped. In January, an agreement was signed in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to form a transition government headed by the Junta's No. 2, general Sekouba Konate. Under the agreement, the transition government was to hold the presidential election within six months to end the political crisis. The first round was conducted peacefully, but with tensions building up ever since. Conde, who lagged behind Diallo, accused CENI of fraud and robbing him of votes. CENI has twice changed its chief under the pressure. Confrontations since September have left at least three dead and more than 100 others injured. The originally planned run-off election had to be postponed from Sept. 19. Just before the official publication of the second round results, Diallo threatened to reject it to press for further postponement, after the tally failed to be made public within 72 hours after the vote in accordance with the electoral code. The situation remains tense before the confirmation of the tally by the Supreme Court, with more clashes feared ahead. 