Presidential election in Niger: who to replace Mahamadou Issoufou?
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Mahamane Ousmane (left) and Mohamed Bazoum (right), the two candidates qualified for the second round of the presidential election in Niger.
© AFP / Boureima Hama (Ousmane) and CCAS4.0 / Benhamayemohamed / Wikimedia Commons (Bazoum) / RFI montage
By: Alain Foka
51 min
In Niger, President Mahamadou Issoufou, after two terms of office, is not a candidate for the presidential election, the second round of which will take place on February 21, 2021. But who to succeed him?
His runner-up, Mohamed Bazoum, who came first in the first round, or former president Mahamane Ousmane?
In Niamey, negotiations are going well and the tone is hardening.
In such a climate of tension, will Niger be able to consolidate its democratic maturity?
Will the bases respect the voting instructions of the leaders?
Publicity
With our guests:
- Boubacar Sabo,
election secretary of the National Executive Committee of the PNDS- Tarayya, and President of the Election Commission of the campaign of candidate Mohammed Bazoum
- Ibrahim Hamidou,
journalist, member of the communication cell of the coalition for political alternation (CAP20 / 21), support of the candidate of the Democratic and Republican Renewal RDR-Tchandji, Mahamane Ousmane
- Nouhou Arzika,
president of the movement for the promotion of responsible citizenship (MPCR)
- Dr Amadou Hassane Boubacar
, jurist-constitutionalist, research professor at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey.
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