The advent of the multiparty system in Africa in the early 1990’s has paved the way to liberalism in the political game. Since then, presidential elections have most of the time resulted in troubles, crisis and war. Indeed, elections are contested by opposition parties due to fraud, irregularity, lack of transparency, and fairness. Thus, political discourse researchers have always been interested in the speeches delivered by the winning parties rather than that of losing candidates. relying on Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper, intends to show the effect of political concession speeches on democracy. It reveals that through their forms, political concession speeches are speeches of moral weakness, honour and maturity which are woven around some linguistic patterns and those speeches aim at rooting democracy.