Presidential election in Burkina Faso: the wait is prolonged, the results expected this Thursday morning
Burkina Faso voters voted to elect their president and their deputies on November 22, 2020 © AP Photo / Sophie Garcia
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Paulina Zidi Follow
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While we were awaiting the publication of the provisional results of Sunday's presidential election in Burkina Faso, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) has just announced that the announcement will take place this Thursday at 10 a.m. (UT).
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From our special envoys to Ouagadougou,
“
We lacked almost nothing
, explained at the end of the evening Wednesday, November 25 a source of the Electoral Commission.
The latest results from municipalities in the red zone have just reached us.
At 10 o'clock, we'll be ready,
”this source guarantees.
What has delayed the publication process is the controversy surrounding manual compilations.
On Monday, five of the fifteen commissioners of the Ceni suspended their participation in the work of the institution in part because the results were starting to be published while this manual compilation work was not done
by all the municipal centers
.
The results announced were therefore based solely on the electronic compilation.
What the opposition candidates firmly oppose.
Good offices mission
In an attempt to calm the situation, ECOWAS, the African Union, the UN and the OIF have carried out
a good offices mission
.
The objective is to regain the political consensus that has prevailed in recent months.
This Wednesday, the situation had apparently evolved in the right direction since the five opposition commissioners were back in the plenary of the Electoral Commission.
In addition, the opposition canceled the rally it had planned to organize in front of the HQ of the Ceni, without saying more about the purpose of this demonstration or the reasons for its cancellation.
However, according to one of the opposition candidates, if the commissioners came back, it is only to verify that the results of the municipalities that the Céni are doing are indeed on the basis of these manual compilations.
"
But this is not the case
", regrets this candidate.
"
False
", answers a source from the CENI, "
at the same time as the municipal centers send us their electronic compilation, they scan their manual compilation to us
", she assures us.
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