The presidential party in Mali keeps the hand but will not be able to govern alone. The Rally for Mali (RPM) is indeed at the top of the results of the legislative elections of March-April, with 43 deputies out of 147 in the National Assembly, for a participation of more than 35%, according to provisional official figures published Thursday . He therefore does not obtain an absolute majority. The provisional results have yet to be validated by the Constitutional Court.
Abduction of main opposition candidate
The RPM is followed by another party of the presidential movement, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adema), which obtains 22 deputies, according to these results given by the Minister of Territorial Administration Boubacar Alpha Bah. Next comes the formation of the former Prime Minister and main opponent Soumaïla Cissé, the Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD), with 19 deputies. Soumaïla Cissé, who is among the elected deputies, was also kidnapped on March 25 while he was campaigning in his area of origin, central Mali.
After the RMP, Adema and URD, the leading trio, the rest of the 63 seats of the National Assembly are shared between 18 other formations among the 21 who participated in these legislative elections, the first and second rounds of which were held March 29 and April 19 respectively. 22 seats had been filled in the first round. These legislative elections had been maintained despite the context marked by jihadist violence and the new coronavirus. Mali has declared 258 confirmed cases including 57 cured and 14 deaths.
The challenge of decentralization
The stake of the ballot was to renew a parliament elected in 2013 and whose mandate was to end in 2018, and to advance the application of the Algiers peace agreement. This, signed in 2015 between the independentist armed groups and Bamako, provides for more decentralization via a constitutional reform which must go through the Assembly.
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