Mali: ECOWAS wants an electoral calendar before the end of 2021
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, ECOWAS mediator in the Malian crisis, here in Mali, May 25, 2021. REUTERS - AMADOU KEITA
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Express visit this Monday, December 20 of a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Bamako.
It is in the continuation of the last summit of the heads of state of the sub-regional institution which was held in Abuja in Nigeria.
Goodluck Jonathan, former president of Niger and ECOWAS mediator for Mali, and Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, president of the ECOWAS Commission, conveyed messages to the president of the transition they met.
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With our correspondent in Bamako,
Serge Daniel
The ECOWAS delegation only met - this is a first for discussions - one person: the President of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta. According to our information, during the interviews, the atmosphere was rather studious. Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Jean-Claude Kassi Brou took a message out of their pocket: the heads of state of the ECOWAS reaffirm that in Mali, the general elections must be held as planned at the end of February 2022.
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What was decided by the conference of heads of state of ECOWAS is to organize the elections in February.
That means, as far as we are concerned at ECOWAS, to have a calendar before the end of the year.
We will return to Bamako in January to follow the discussion and the exchanges with the authorities of the Transition.
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"Detailed schedule for the organization of these elections"
At the end of the meeting, a member of the ECOWAS delegation added for RFI: "
We told President Goïta that ECOWAS hopes to obtain from him, before December 31, 2021, a detailed timetable for the organization of these elections.
But in return, our interlocutor did not give the reaction of the President of the Transition, and the communication service of the latter questioned, has not yet responded.
In a letter sent on December 10 to ECOWAS, President Assimi Goïta affirmed that given several factors, including the security context, the general elections scheduled for the end of February 2022 could not be held.
And he announced that before the end of January 2022, the time to organize national meetings, he will give the chronogram of the elections.
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Mali: the transitional authorities react to the ECOWAS summit
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