Crisis in Mali: the ECOWAS mission recommends that partial legislative elections be repeated

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The ECOWAS appeasement mission left Bamako yesterday Saturday June 20, in particular by proposing the partial resumption of the legislative elections in constituencies where the victory has changed sides. Proposal put on the table of the 9 wise men of the Constitutional Court. The court is now at the center of the proceedings. At least 4 members of the body have resigned in an attempt to contribute to the relaxation.

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With our correspondent in Bamako, Serge Daniel

"Yes, that's right ... I have, according to the procedure, submitted my letter of resignation," one of the nine sages of the Constitutional Court told RFI. Our interlocutor does not want to say more, but agrees when he is pointed out that his gesture can be likened to a desire to relax the tense atmosphere. At least three other members of the Court have also resigned.

This institution of the Republic is at the center of the political crisis. It was the final results, published during the last legislative elections in certain electoral districts, that set the powder on fire. Results which brought into the National Assembly candidates who had previously been declared defeated by the Malian Ministry of Territorial Administration. According to the demonstrators, the Constitutional Court is held responsible for electoral fraud.

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In total, the election of around thirty deputies is strongly contested. Among them, the one who is today president of the National Assembly of Mali.

The appeasement mission of the Economic Community of West African States - Cédéao - which has just stayed in Bamako, also considers that the Constitutional Court is the detonator of the current crisis. The mission proposed to the members of the court to resume the legislative elections in localities where the victory had changed sides.

► Also listen : "  Today, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is in a very difficult position  ," according to Baba Dakono, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Mali.

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