In the spotlight: the transition charter in Guinea

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Colonel Doumbouya, at the head of the putschists who led the coup in Guinea, after a meeting with an ECOWAS delegation on September 10, 2021, in Conakry.

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“ 

By an ordinance read last night on national television, the junta led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya proclaimed the Transitional Charter which will serve as fundamental law until the adoption of a new Constitution.

This charter

, specifies the

GuineaNews

site

,

confirms Colonel Mamady Doumbouya as President of the transition and provides for a government headed by a civilian Prime Minister and a National Transitional Council which will serve as parliament until the establishment of a new National Assembly.

This Transitional Council will be made up of 81 members from the nation's living forces (political parties, civil society, diaspora, socio-professional organizations, religious organizations, etc.).

Neither the members of the government, nor the members of the National Council of the Transition,

specifies

GuineaNews

,

will not be able to stand for the elections which will put an end to the transition. 

"

Rebuild the State

First comment, that of the Guinean site

Ledjely

 : “ 

finally, we know a little more about the way in which the Transition should be organized in Guinea. This will not be limited to the classic mission of organizing elections to allow a return to a normal situation, with legitimate and legal authorities. It also sets itself the goal,

Ledjely

points

out, of re-founding the state through the establishment of strong, credible and legitimate institutions. It will also strive to strengthen national cohesion and the independence of the judiciary. Reserving a large place for fundamental freedoms and human rights, the Charter proclaims that "no exceptional or emergency situation should justify violations of human rights"

. "

On the executive level, continues

Ledjely, "

the presidency of the Transition being assumed by the head of the junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, he will be assisted by a prime minister who will be a civil personality," recognized for his convictions, his proven skills and moral probity ".

(…) As for the National Council of the Transition, the appropriate legislative body, with its 81 members, it will have the vocation to reflect all the diversities of the country.

Its main mission will be to provide Guinea with a new constitution.

(…) "

What duration?

Finally

, points out

Ledjely

,

only the question of the duration of the transition has not yet been decided.

As ECOWAS requires a deadline not to exceed six months, the CNRD would obviously like to surround itself with all the required legitimacy before making its counter-proposal.

Thus, in article 77 of the charter published last night, we can read: "the duration of the Transition will be fixed by mutual agreement between the Forces Vives de la Nation and the CNRD".

 "

The Bamako-Paris showdown

Also on the front page, the reaction of the French Minister of the Armed Forces after the remarks of the Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga who accused France last weekend of "

 abandonment in full flight

 ". 

"

Unacceptable

and

 "

indecent

" accusations 

which amount to

 "

wiping their feet on the blood of French soldiers,

 " says Florence Parly.

Comments relayed in particular by

Le Monde Afrique

.

Cameroon " 

in decline

 "

Finally to read in the French daily

Liberation

 this double page on Cameroon. With this long interview with the opponent Maurice Kamto. “The 

whole country is in decline,” he

says

. All the lights are red. On the health front, for example, the country has not recovered from the "Covidgate": the IMF had granted a three-year moratorium on debt repayment, so that this money is used to fight the pandemic. But the money has vanished, as confirmed by the Court of Auditors. (…) Crazy sums are officially allocated to infrastructures that never see the light of day.

 "

As for France, affirms Maurice Kamto,

"it too often seems to stick to the credo of an alleged" stability "and above all wants to preserve French companies on the spot.

As far as I'm concerned, since the 2018 elections, despite my repeated requests, I have never been received by the Quai d'Orsay.

 "

Commentary by

Liberation

 : “ 

a year after the violent repression of a peaceful demonstration by the opposition, Cameroon seems to be in a total political impasse.

Its implosion has never seemed so close, under the reign of an octogenarian president who spends more time in Geneva than in his own country.

 "

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