Burkina Faso prepares for the investiture ceremony of Captain Traoré
The new self-proclaimed leader of Burkina Faso's ruling military junta, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, marches through the streets of Ouagadougou and waves to the crowd on October 2, 2022. AFP - IDRISSA OUEDRAOGO,ADAMA OUEDRAOGO
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Captain Ibrahim Traoré must take the oath and be invested in stride, as president of the transition, this Friday, October 21.
About sixty guests will attend the ceremony which will take place at the headquarters of the Constitutional Council.
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For this service and oath and investiture ceremony, dozens of personalities are expected.
“
We will have around 60 people.
The Head of State wants the ceremony to be sober
,” says a source close to the organization of the event, reports our correspondent in Ouagadougou,
Yaya Boudani
.
Are invited to attend the ceremony, the presidents of institutions, the military and paramilitary, the political parties and the representatives of organizations of the civil company, roughly the constituted bodies.
Unless there is a last-minute change, the entire diplomatic corps was not invited to the ceremony, according to our information.
Two highlights will mark the ceremony.
The actual swearing in and the inauguration speech of the President of the Transition, Captain Ibrahim Traoré.
It is after this ceremony that Captain Ibrahim Traoré will be able to return
to his attributes as Head of State
.
According to a teacher-researcher, he will be able to move on to the actual exercise of his functions by appointing a Prime Minister for the establishment of a government.
The issue of law
After Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who came to power in a coup in January, it is therefore the second putschist that the Constitutional Council, the highest court in the country, recognizes as president.
A decision that is debated among jurists.
In its Wednesday press release announcing the swearing-in, the Constitutional Council recognizes that Captain Traoré has been appointed “
President of the transition by the National Assizes
”.
Like his predecessor, he restored the Constitution and recognized the Transitional Charter.
For Abdoul Karim Sango, professor of law at the National School of Administration and Magistracy, Burkinabè legislators have thus found a model adapted to an exceptional situation.
“
In reality, the military had no obligation to submit to all this legal procedure, but we must be happy that when someone makes a coup, he has the immediate concern for the guarantee of rights.
We have to make a choice, it is a choice of opportunity, but what is the law in the end?
It is also the healthy appreciation of the realities of the moment.
»
According to Djibrina Ouedraogo, professor of public law at Thomas Sankara University, this legal veneer applied to a coup is not enough to hide the ongoing democratic crisis in Burkina.
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The national assizes were springboards for legitimizing the coup and from this point of view, it is to be feared that the collective conscience is beginning to adapt to the idea of taking power by force.
One might wonder whether constitutional law is not currently a victim of the security crisis, one of the consequences of which is the delegitimization of democratically established powers.
»
General elections must put an end to the transition in 2024. According to the charter, Captain Ibrahim Traoré will not be able to seek any mandate.
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To read also: Burkina: after the consensus around Ibrahim Traoré, the transition starts again on new bases
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