Handover ceremony in Botswana this Monday, November 4. The new president Duma Boko has officially taken office. In his speech, he welcomed a democratic transition “without drama, without apprehension or acrobatics” under the approval of Mokgweetsi Masisi, outgoing president; the new president took the opportunity to highlight his country’s democracy.
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It’s true that at the end of an election which dethroned a party in power since 1958, we have become accustomed to something else. And it is precisely to welcome this peaceful transition that Duma Boko, newly elected president, praised Botswana’s democracy: “ His Excellency, he declared in reference to the outgoing president, called me and assured me that he would cede power and here we are today without any apprehension and without acrobatics “.
It is true that even before the announcement of the full results, outgoing President Mokgweetsi Masisi had already admitted his defeat. Today, on the occasion of the transfer of power, he reiterated this, declaring that his party must now “ learn ” how ” be an opposition minority » ; out of a total of 61 places, the outgoing party won 3 seats, far behind the 31 of the left alliance led by Duma Boko.
It is in this context that the latter wanted to mark the difference between his country and the others; because for him “ if we were in other countries, (…), we would be plunged into civil unrest, the leavers refusing to accept the results “.
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