In Mali, the presidential election still remains virtual. First scheduled for 2022, then postponed to February 2024, was postponed again, this time sine die, last September.
The reasons were only given lip service by the government: the need to review the electoral files and the population census. “In fact, we can even wonder if still talking about transition is not inappropriate,” underlines Rinaldo Depagne, researcher for the International Crisis Group (ICG), as the military regime will celebrate its four years in August.