Mali: post-electoral climate worries national observers

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Cocem, the platform of national observers, is concerned, while the contestation of the results of the legislative elections continues in Mali. It also points to contradictions in the figures of the final results published in the judgment of the Constitutional Court and its appendix.

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With our correspondent in Bamako , Serge Daniel

The Coalition for the citizen observation of the elections in Mali (Cocem) analyzed the results of three communes of Bamako and three localities (Kati, Bougouni and Sikasso) where the victory changed sides after the judgment of the Constitutional Court. About thirty seats of deputies are at stake in these constituencies. For Cocem, when we read the judgment of the Court, there are contradictions in the figures.

"  According to the Court's judgment, 536 polling stations were canceled in the electoral districts of Sikasso, Bougouni, Kati, Commune V and Commune VI against 927 polling stations invalidated in the annex to the same judgment for the same electoral districts , points out Drissa Traoré, president of the platform of national observers, Cocem. So, you see, there are often inconsistencies between the numbers.  "

The decision of the Constitutional Court mainly benefits the ruling party, to the detriment of the opposition. Faced with the post-electoral crisis that is taking hold, Cocem asks the Constitutional Court to enlighten public opinion and the Ministry of Territorial Administration to publish the results of the legislative elections, polling station by polling station. A Constitutional Court which rejected this Thursday the requests introduced against the final results which it published.

Cocem also calls for calm. Because the situation was still tense this Thursday, May 7. In the locality of Sikasso (south), the security forces intervened to remove the barricades posed by the demonstrators in the south corridor of the city. Then, clashes took place in Sikasso between the demonstrators who still contest the results of the legislative elections, and the police. Hospital sources said protesters who had been shot were admitted to the hospital. Motorcycles of demonstrators were set on fire.

And in the North, in the locality of Timbuktu, a group of young people has decided, from this Thursday and due in particular to insecurity, to defy until further order the curfew in force on the extent of national territory from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time.

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