Presidential election in Niger: 41 candidates submitted their file to the Ministry of the Interior
(illustration: legislative of 2016 in Niger) approximately 7 million 400,000 voters are called to vote for the presidential and legislative elections of December 2020. Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images
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In Niger, 41 candidate files for the presidential election next December have been submitted to the Ministry of the Interior.
This is the first time that there is such a large number of potential candidates for the election on December 27.
During the last election, they were 16. President Issoufou, at the end of his mandate, hopes to achieve the first alternation in Niger: a civilian passes the torch to another.
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With our correspondent in Niamey,
Moussa Kaka
All the big names in Nigerien politics are among the forty-one applications submitted to the Ministry of the Interior.
They are, among others, former President
Mahamane
Ousmane, Seyni Oumarou, Bazoum Mohamed, General Salou Djibo, Hama Amadou, Albadé Abouba and Sheikh Boureima Daouda, the imam of the great mosque of the University of Niamey.
The second phase is the morality investigation for all candidates.
In article 134 of the electoral code, we can read:
"No one is eligible for the presidency of the Republic, if he does not enjoy a good state of physical and mental health, as well as of good moral character. certified by the competent services
”.
After all these formalities, the administrative authority transmits the forty-one files to the Constitutional Court.
The highest court in the country then has two weeks to validate applications, that is to say no later than December 1, 2020.
The particularity of these elections is that almost three quarters of the candidates are young people, new faces arriving on the political scene according to a political scientist.
Each candidate will pay a deposit of 25 million CFA francs, their participation in electoral costs.
At the level of the CENI, approximately 7 million 400,000 voters are registered on the biometric electoral register.
The electoral campaign for the legislative and presidential elections of the first round opens on December 5, to end on December 25, 2020.
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