By RFIPosted 31-07-2018Modified on 31-07-2018 at 15:58

Countdown continues in Mali. The official and provisional results of the presidential election are expected in the coming days. But already estimates on social networks, private radio are going well. While only competent authorities are empowered to deliver results, Monday evening, several field teams in the headquarters have positioned themselves.

Almost simultaneously, a few minutes apart, the team of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Soumaïla Cissé's team reveal their first trend. A race against the clock where everyone calls the press and positions themselves to occupy the field.

IBK camp ensures " that his candidate comes largely in the lead ." Opposite, the party URD says that there could be a second round, opposing the outgoing president and the leader of the opposition. However, no one specifies where the figures are coming from to give these trends.

At this duel is added in the late evening on Monday a third candidate who tries to pull out of the game. Aliou Diallo camp also advance his qualification for the second round.

For now, no official result has been given. According to the electoral law, only the Ministry of Territorial Administration adds up the results of the minutes: the process of centralization of the results started Monday but it is a question of making up all the results in a country of more than one million of km².

These are commissions composed of members of the administration and political parties that centralize at the level of the administrative circles and at the national level. All under the watchful eye of observers. But Fatoumatas Dicko, head of COCEM, the Coalition for Election Observation in Mali, is asking for more ...

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31-07-2018 - By Gaëlle Laleix

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