By RFIPubliée on 24-06-2019Modified on 24-06-2019 at 22:20
In the wake of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani's temporary victory at the head of Mauritania, the four opposition candidates still stand together to contest the results. They postponed the civic march they announced on Sunday night to Monday, June 24.
After a short night, first spent at the Ministry of the Interior where they had been summoned, and then at a joint press conference, the four opposition candidates met around 2.30 pm at Biram Dah Abeid HQ. There, they talked for almost two hours to finally decide to postpone the protest march . This was to take place at the end of the week.
They mentioned a first politically correct reason to know the entry match of the Mourabitoune for their first selection at the African Cup of Nations which should mobilize youth. But, more in hollow, it is the lack of real organization of this march which seems to be one of the reasons for this postponement.
By allowing themselves two or three days to mobilize at the national level, they hope to be able to demonstrate legally. Because it's also where things were unclear on Monday. According to the Ministry of the Interior, no request for permission to demonstrate was filed with the authorities.
In the Biram camp, it is recognized that the cancellation was late when about two hundred young people were waiting by his headquarters to walk to the Ceni.
On Sunday, numerous arrests were made, and opposition leaders announced that they wanted to negotiate their release with the authorities.
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