In Mauritania, legislative and local elections are being held on Saturday 13 May. The campaign ended Thursday, May 11 in the evening. More than a million voters are called upon to choose their deputies, mayors and regional councillors. The voters of this election are divided between the hope of the new lists and the general disappointment of the policy.
With our special correspondent in Nouakchott, Sidy Yansane
The Carrefour BMD market is teeming with people at the end of the day. Here the reviews are very divided on the elections of Saturday. Some are particularly attracted by the new list specially allocated to young candidates to the deputies:
” It can really change things. I advise young people to just go and vote, for themselves: because only young people know what young people want », Says a resident.
” If I don’t leave to vote, it’s as if I had voted. If we want things to change, we have to be part of the changesummarizes another resident. So no, young people and everyone, everyone must go and vote. Because that is precisely what must reflect certain realities, in the image of a possible change for a better future. »
But many remain undecided, even disappointed with the policy: “ There is no program, there is no idea, there is nothing that makes you want to get started on it, to know a little more “, lamented a Mauritanian.
” Politicians come to us only when there are elections, only to get our voteanother pursues. But in reality, they work for themselves, for their pockets and for their communities, never for the people. I don’t recognize myself in them. »
” They’re going to pay us to buy our IDs, so that we can vote for them afterwards. Afterwards, they don’t care about the country, they won’t help us, whereas we are here, we are citizens, we have studied, we have our diplomas, but we don’t have a job. We suffer and they have the means to support us but do not another Mauritanian woman said indignantly.
With the introduction of new lists allocated to women and young people, the turnout rate is also part of the election issues.
Mauritanians split over elections