The issue stirred Mali for days. Should this Sunday's legislative elections be maintained or postponed? Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita chose to open the polling stations despite the Covid-19 epidemic and a security situation far from ensuring the serenity of the ballot.
In a speech Wednesday, IBK assumed its decision, based on the request from last year's National Dialogue and the fact that the vote, originally scheduled for late 2018, had already been postponed twice. The risk that, as in France, the second round, supposed to take place on April 19, would be impossible to organize has not even been mentioned. “The president had little choice. The majority of the opposition did not want to postpone and would have called for maneuver. The inability of the political class to establish a position is a recurring problem ” , regrets the political scientist Issa Ndiaye.
Voices, certainly minority but always more numerous over the days, have
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