"Enough is enough." Several thousand Malians gathered Friday, July 10, Independence Square, in the center of Bamako, to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK). Some supporters then occupied public media premises and blocked bridges.

It is the third major rally organized in two months in the capital by the coalition of the June 5 Movement, made up of religious leaders, politicians and civil society.

"We don't want this diet anymore"

"The President of the Republic disappointed in his last speech," Nouhoun Sarr, an official in the protest movement, told AFP. "We no longer want this regime," said a protester, Sy Kadiatou Sow.

Opponents have occupied the court of ORTM public radio and television after the demonstration. Other protesters were blocking two of the city's three bridges, AFP journalists found. Barricades were also erected on one of these bridges when cars were forced to divert traffic.

President Keïta vainly attempted on Wednesday evening a new gesture of appeasement, paving the way for a reexamination of the reversal by the Constitutional Court of the results of about thirty results of the legislative elections of March-April, considered as triggering the current political crisis.

IBK has hinted that a newly formed court could reconsider this decision, which has benefited a dozen members of its majority, starting with the one who would then be elected president of Parliament.

Mahmoud Dicko, very influential

The Movement of June 5 calls for the dissolution of Parliament, the formation of a transitional government of which it would designate the Prime Minister, as well as the replacement of the nine members of the Constitutional Court, accused of collusion with the power.

The coalition, the main figure of which is Imam Mahmoud Dicko, reputed to be very influential, has led this sling against the president supported by the international community in his anti-Jihadist struggle since his first election in 2013.

This dispute raises fears for Mali's partners of a further destabilization of a country already confronted since 2012 with jihadist attacks, which have been intermingled for five years with intercommunity violence.

With AFP

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