PANAPRESS
Panafrican News Agency
4 political parties protest against postponement of parliamentary elections in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Coming under the umbrella Convergence of Patriotic Forces (CFP), four political parties - Party for solidarity and African integration (SADI), Yelema (change), the Convergence for Mali development (CODEM) and the Platform for change have - on Monday forged a new alliance to protest any postponement of the parliamentary elections.
According to the leaders of that new alliance, the objective is to ‘save the nation’. It denounced the postponement of the parliamentary elections, initially due for November and December 2018, describing it as anti-constitutional.
In addition to Moussa Mara of the Party for Change (Yelema), the alliance boasts of three candidates who took part in the last presidential election in Mali, Oumar Mariko of SADI, Housseyni Amion Guindo of CODEM and Moussa Sinko Coulibaly of the Platform for change.
Following a request from Parliament, the constitutional court accepted the postponement of the parliamentary elections until 2019, as the mandate of MPs ends in December 2018, sparking different reactions within the Malian political class.
Ten days ago, the Front for the maintaining of democracy (FSD), which includes several political parties and civil society associations, was established to reject what it called ‘the antidemocratic behaviors of the ruling party and preserve democracy in Mali’.
Soumaila Cissé, former candidate in the last presidential election, who was defeated in the run-off by President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, and several of his supporters still refuse to recognize Keita as president.
-0- PANA GT/JSG/MSA/VAO 22Oct2018
According to the leaders of that new alliance, the objective is to ‘save the nation’. It denounced the postponement of the parliamentary elections, initially due for November and December 2018, describing it as anti-constitutional.
In addition to Moussa Mara of the Party for Change (Yelema), the alliance boasts of three candidates who took part in the last presidential election in Mali, Oumar Mariko of SADI, Housseyni Amion Guindo of CODEM and Moussa Sinko Coulibaly of the Platform for change.
Following a request from Parliament, the constitutional court accepted the postponement of the parliamentary elections until 2019, as the mandate of MPs ends in December 2018, sparking different reactions within the Malian political class.
Ten days ago, the Front for the maintaining of democracy (FSD), which includes several political parties and civil society associations, was established to reject what it called ‘the antidemocratic behaviors of the ruling party and preserve democracy in Mali’.
Soumaila Cissé, former candidate in the last presidential election, who was defeated in the run-off by President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, and several of his supporters still refuse to recognize Keita as president.
-0- PANA GT/JSG/MSA/VAO 22Oct2018
