By RFIPubliée on 24-03-2019Modified on 24-03-2019 at 22:30

In Central Africa, the new government team led by Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada is not unanimous. If it wants to be more "inclusive", with several ministerial portfolios entrusted to representatives of armed groups, the opposition and civil society regret not to be represented.

Barely revealed, already contested. If the relatives of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra retain the key ministries of Defense, Economy or Foreign Affairs, several representatives of armed groups have also been entrusted with ministerial portfolios. Of the 39 ministers appointed, at least eight are representatives of armed groups.

A recomposition of the political landscape considered problematic by Joseph Bindoumi, the president of the Central African League of Human Rights.

" It is true that there are skills among the ministers who will occupy the ministerial ministries. But there is a good chance that they will be limited in their abilities to the extent that we put next to them people who have come out of the maquis and who have another vision of peace in the Central African Republic ", points out -he.

Like him, the opponent and former Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye, deplores the absence of members of the opposition and civil society in this new team.

" This government is not sufficiently inclusive in the sense that it is not representative of the political and social forces of the country," he says. In reality, it is just a division of posts between supporters of President Touadéra and armed groups .

The Minister of Communication and government spokesman Maxime-Angel Kazagui, for his part prefers to see a new step towards the resolution of the conflict in the Central African Republic. " It was, according to the approach of the President of the Republic - and indeed followed by his peers in the African Union - the approach through which the armed groups are now supposed to lay down their arms, bring back security and So peace, "he says.

The previous version of this government, named in early March, had angered several armed groups. The latter were not sufficiently or not at all represented.

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