Mali: the new Constitutional Court facing the case of disputed deputies

The mediator of the ECOWAS, the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé whose opposition is asking for his resignation. Press Service of Prime Ministry / Handout via REUTERS

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The 9 new members of the Constitutional Court were sworn in on Monday, August 10, in the presence of the President of the Republic Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and the mediator of the ECOWAS in the Malian crisis, the former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. One of the first cases that this new Court will have to deal with is that of the 30 deputies to the National Assembly whose election is contested.

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With our correspondent in Bamako , Serge Daniel

The puzzle of the 30 deputies whose election is contested is already on the tables of the nine new members of the Constitutional Court. ECOWAS had asked these elected officials to resign, but some are resisting. What to do then?

Continue to study the file from this angle? Or resume the electoral dispute and rule again on the provisional results of the legislative elections published at the time by the Ministry of Territorial Administration? Let us recall that it is part of these provisional results published by the defunct Constitutional Court which was the detonator of the current political crisis.

If the new Court solves "the problem of 30 deputies", it would be a big step forward in the "elections" side of the crisis. There remains the more political one. The Malian opposition is organizing a rally in Bamako on Tuesday to “  put pressure  ” - in its terms - on the government.

It essentially demands the resignation of Prime Minister Boubou Cissé and a political transition. Malian President IBK retorts that there is “  no question of political transition, nor of the resignation of his Prime Minister  ”. On the other hand, he is for the formation of a government of national unity.

It is in this context that the former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS mediator in the crisis is back in Mali. He started his meetings.

The President of the Republic, Head of State, HE Mr. @IssoufouMhm, is currently chairing a meeting of the National Security Council (CNS). pic.twitter.com/xUW8goE9Rd

  Presidency of Niger (@PresidenceNiger) August 10, 2020

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