In Burkina Faso, the political class and civil society are speaking out after the appointment of the former Nigerien president as mediator. The various actors hope that with his intervention, a way out of the crisis will be found on the deadlines for the transition and the return to a normal constitutional order.
With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani
” A friend » from Burkina Faso, « a confirmed democrat who knows very well the political history of the country of honest men. This is how Abdoul Karim Sango, the president of the National Renaissance Party welcomes the appointment of the former Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, as mediator of ECOWAS to facilitate dialogue between the sub-regional organization and the Burkinabè. ” He is a personality who knows political history very well, its political actors and the question of terrorism for having managed it, he said. Who better than him in a context like this could have really helped Burkina to get out of the impasse in which the country finds itself at the moment? »
For Dr. Guy Yogo, member of the steering committee of the Dytaniè forum, by appointing the former Nigerien president as mediator, ECOWAS is in a very good position to support Burkina Faso. The choice of President Mahamadou Issoufou is very judicious in the current context, he underlines: “ The arrival of President Issoufou to discuss with all the components of our people will effectively allow him to take into consideration the deep aspirations of our people in terms of democracy and in terms of building stable institutions that could save us from eternal restarts. »
These different political and civil society actors hope that all the parties will be in better conditions for the success of this mediation.