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Malian interim president pledges free and fair election
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, on Sunday pledged a successful free and fair elections whose results would be accepted by all as the West African country goes to the polls on 28 July.
In a declaration on television, he said that by avoiding focusing on inevitable difficulties, Malians, together, can manage a free and fair vote.
According to him, the Malian crisis was very extensive and not restricted only to security challenges that had disrupted the basis of Mali’s territorial integrity.
"It’s a crisis of our society and our state whose parameters we must identify and try to control. It is a crisis that requires serious re-foundation of our State and government," he said.
“The mission cannot be carried out by a transition. It must necessarily come from a power that derives from a vote that has more legitimacy and more time," he added.
The constitutional court in Mali has approved the candidatures of 28 of the 36 candidates who applied to run for the 28 July presidential election.
The list of the validated candidatures includes key men in the Malian political arena like former Prime Ministers Ibrahim Boubacar Kéïta, Modibo Sidibé, Soumana Sako and Cheick Modibo Diarra.
It also includes former ministers and party leaders like the former chairman of the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and former Malian minister of Finance, Soumaïla Cissé; former ministers Choguël Kokalla Maïga, Oumar Ibrahim Touré, Tiébilé Dramé and Konimba Sidibé, lawyer Mountaga Tall, chairman of the national democratic initiative congress (CNID-Faso Yiriwa Ton), and Oumar Mariko, secretary-general of the party.
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In a declaration on television, he said that by avoiding focusing on inevitable difficulties, Malians, together, can manage a free and fair vote.
According to him, the Malian crisis was very extensive and not restricted only to security challenges that had disrupted the basis of Mali’s territorial integrity.
"It’s a crisis of our society and our state whose parameters we must identify and try to control. It is a crisis that requires serious re-foundation of our State and government," he said.
“The mission cannot be carried out by a transition. It must necessarily come from a power that derives from a vote that has more legitimacy and more time," he added.
The constitutional court in Mali has approved the candidatures of 28 of the 36 candidates who applied to run for the 28 July presidential election.
The list of the validated candidatures includes key men in the Malian political arena like former Prime Ministers Ibrahim Boubacar Kéïta, Modibo Sidibé, Soumana Sako and Cheick Modibo Diarra.
It also includes former ministers and party leaders like the former chairman of the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and former Malian minister of Finance, Soumaïla Cissé; former ministers Choguël Kokalla Maïga, Oumar Ibrahim Touré, Tiébilé Dramé and Konimba Sidibé, lawyer Mountaga Tall, chairman of the national democratic initiative congress (CNID-Faso Yiriwa Ton), and Oumar Mariko, secretary-general of the party.
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