Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya proceeded this Tuesday, March 22 to the kick-off of the National Assizes. The president of the transition sees these meetings, which will last until April 29, as “ days of forgiveness and truth “. Only downside: several dozen political parties shunned the event, deploring the lack of information around these Assizes.
In the Hall of the Mohamed V Palace in Conakry, ministers, magistrates, governors and district councilors gathered to listen to the solemn speech of the president of the transition. Two years after the disputed double ballot of March 22, 2020, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya wants to be a unifier.
” I wanted to organize these national analyzes in order to give Guineans a historic and unique opportunity to look each other in the face, eye to eye and to speak to each other frankly, with an open heart this time. », declares Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya. ” Each of us here in this country has suffered brutality, the wounds are there, gaping. It’s time we cleaned them up, put some bandages on them “, he says.
” National foundations are above all political, ethnic, religious considerations of our nation “adds the president of the transition, calling on political, cultural and religious actors to get involved in the process of the Assizes” to give this event all the success it deserves. »
A national commission to coordinate the Assizes should be in place shortly. The Assizes will last six weeks, in the absence of around sixty political parties such as the National Alliance for Alternation and Democracy (Anad) or the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), which denounce the lack of preparation for these meetings and prefer to concentrate on managing the transition.
The day before, we don’t know what we’re going to talk about! All this derives from the fact that the CNFD does not wish to involve all Guineans in the discussion and in the search for solutions to our problems.
Aliou Condé, Secretary General of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG).