Mali: parties announce boycott of National Assizes of Prime Minister Choguel Maïga
Transitional Prime Minister Choguel Maïga during the inauguration of the President of the Malian transition Assimi Goïta on June 7, 2021. (Illustrative image) AFP - ANNIE RISEMBERG
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The Malian Prime Minister has passed the milestone of the first 100 days at the head of the government.
If he had time to make field visits and to announce the opening of major projects, the timetable for the organization of the elections is still not known.
He now has against him a good part of the Malian political class who decided to boycott the National Assizes of the refoundation that he plans to organize.
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With our correspondent in Bamako
,
Serge Daniel
Wind up, several political parties and associations do not intend to participate in the National Assizes of the refoundation envisaged by
the Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga
.
For them, this is a maneuver to obtain the extension of the duration of the transition which ends in principle at the end of February 2022.
Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, former Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and president of Republican Action for Progress, a grouping of parties, is a signatory, like any other, of an official press release: "
We will not participate in the National Assizes, because we have perceived there a maneuver, the objective of which was to obtain
an extension of the transition
by a non-consensual way.
"
The former minister and the other signatories also believe that they are not “
in an inclusive process.
And today it is high time that we can find a way to go in that direction.
This would prevent us from wasting more time, but above all it would allow us to have unity - a union - around this transition which must succeed, which must absolutely succeed.
"
Some signatories of the press release request the intervention of the president of the transition to rectify the situation.
The Prime Minister is in the process of forcing to go to a meeting that has no place today.
We have understood quite simply that these meetings are being organized to instrumentalize certain political classes or civil society so that we go to the extension.
Yaya Sangaré, former minister and spokesperson for Adema
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