Controversy over the new Constitution in Guinea: MPs want to seize the ECOWAS

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The decision of the Constitutional Court to dismiss the deputies opposed to the new Constitution in Guinea whom they accuse of having been manipulated, does not extinguish the debate on the subject. The parliamentarians intend to seize the judicial authorities of the Economic Community of West African States to win their case.

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With our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah

Seized by the President of the National Assembly Damaro Camara on behalf of 15 deputies to have the Constitution voted in the referendum of March 22 canceled, the Constitutional Court declared the application inadmissible .

Souleymane Kéita, deputy of the majority party and parliamentary secretary at the level of the executive office of the National Assembly, believes that “  now that the Constitutional Court has ruled, the debate is closed and we are moving towards the future.  "

Going forward, for the extra-parliamentary opposition, means mobilizing to go further. "  I believe that at the present time, we can say that Guinea does not have a Constitution or it is the 2010 Constitution which is in force, estimates Diabaty Doré, president of the RPR, opposed to the new Constitution. We cannot understand that in January, we are shown a draft Constitution and that the people vote on it on April 22 and 14, we come out with another Constitution. This means that the Guinea birth certificate has been modified. We will join the 15 deputies, to file recourse at the level of the ECOWAS.  "

Accused by the opposition of being subservient to power, the Constitutional Court indicated that the Constitution of the Republic of Guinea is indeed that which was published in the Official Journal of the Republic on April 14.

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