CAR: Touadera appoints members of committee responsible for drafting new Constitution
Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, September 17, 2021 in Bangui.
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Created by decree of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra on August 29, the drafting committee of the new Central African Constitution now knows its composition.
The head of state named 55 personalities on Monday, responsible for working on a new fundamental law in the next three months.
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With our special correspondent in Bangui,
François Mazet
In this committee are six ministers, members of the first circle of the Head of State, such as that of Justice, Arnaud Djoubaye Abazene, or that in charge of Relations with the institutions, Maxime Balalou.
MPs, including Brice Kevin Kakpayen, promoter of a reform of the Constitution tabled in the National Assembly last May, but also representatives of civil society groups, unions, chiefdoms, or even religious denominations.
Some of the appointees had opposed a constitutional review during the Republican Dialogue in March.
Today, they are called to write a new one.
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Chosen from among the delegates, MP Arthur Simplice Zingas sees no contradiction in this: the co-founder of the Union of Opposition Democratic Forces (UFDO) platform says he "
does not want to presume
" about the content of the discussions, and that he “
will come with his proposals
”.
"
The opposition is plural, what matters is the best interests of the nation
" he defends himself.
His former comrades within the COD-2020 or the new Republican Bloc for the Defense of the Constitution (BRDC) denounce "
poaching
", while the anti-revision civil society platform, G-16, is concerned about an "
institutional coup in preparation
", and sees in these appointments a "
means of putting pressure
" on the Constitutional Court, which must rule by the end of the month on the validity of the constitutional process.
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