A dozen Malian political organizations rejected, this Sunday, January 2, 2022, the five-year transition period proposed the day before by the government to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdoulaye Diop indeed presented a project of return to constitutional order to the Ghanaian Head of State, current president of the sub-regional institution.
With our correspondent in Bamako, Kaourou Magassa
Willingness to stay in power for another five years or base negotiations with ECOWAS ? This is the question after the publication on social networks of a two-page letter written in English which sets a timetable for a return to constitutional order in Mali.
In detail, the schedule relies on the holding of a constitutional referendum in January 2024, on combined legislative and senatorial elections in November 2025 and on a presidential election no later than December 2026.
A program that follows, according to this letter, the resolutions of the National Conference of the refoundation which recommended an extension of the transition from six months to five years. In addition, it was also decided during the Assises to reform the Constitution, the adoption of a new electoral law, the establishment of a single electoral management body and the improvement of the security situation in the region. country.
In a statement released this Sunday, a dozen political organizations strongly rejected the implementation of all these reforms. They castigate the ” extension of the transition for a cumulative period of six years and six months Which violates the transition charter. This grouping of parties regrets that this timetable has not been the subject of discussions, urges the authorities to respect their past commitments and sees ” an attempt to confiscate power by force and cunning From the authorities.
The ECOWAS mediator, GoodLuck Jonathan, is expected in the country on Wednesday. An extraordinary summit of heads of state of the organization is scheduled for Sunday, January 9, 2022.