Mali: transitional government raises the possibility of postponing elections
The Malian Minister for the Refoundation of the State, Ibrahim Ikassa Maïga, during the closing of the consultations on the National Conference for the Refoundation, in Bamako on October 26, 2021. © Manon Laplace / RFI
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This Sunday, September 26, the consultations on the development of a single electoral management body and the preparation of the National Assembly for the refoundation ended.
The opportunity for the transitional authorities to express the possibility of postponing the elections to have time to carry out the necessary reforms.
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With our correspondent in Bamako,
Manon Laplace
"
Better postponed elections than botched elections
", this is in essence what the Minister for the Refoundation of the State, Ibrahim Ikassa Maïga, confided to RFI on the sidelines of the consultations on the national meeting.
“
The deadlines which constitute commitments are known. We are actively working to meet these deadlines. Now, the reality on the ground will determine everything else,
he said.
The scope of the reforms to be made will determine everything else more than the questions of deadlines. It is about the future of Mali.
"
A decision likely to upset the international community, which
had made respect for the transition schedule, set at 18 months,
its main requirement after the coup d'état of August 18, 2020. “The
entire international community is there to help us to move towards stabilization. If Mali is not stabilized, I do not think it is honorable for the international community and for ourselves
, ”explained Ibrahim Ikassa Maïga.
Part of the political class, which boycotted the consultations, accuses the authorities of instrumentalizing the organization of the National Assizes for political purposes. "
It is a waste of energy and resources that hides a clear desire to extend the transition with forceps and to remain in power,
" Yaya Sangaré, spokesperson for Adema told us.
Asked by RFI in
an upcoming interview on our antenna
, the Malian Prime Minister assured that "
the main thing was less to hold elections on February 27 than to hold elections that will not be contested
".
While no timetable has been unveiled for the holding of the National Assizes, which will have to precede the ballot, an extension of the transition now seems inevitable.
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