The group responsible for appointing the president who will lead Mali over the coming months after the August 18 putsch is due to meet on Monday, an official from one of the organizations associated with the consultations announced on Sunday.
This college established by the military junta now in power will meet at a time when the latter is under pressure from the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to quickly appoint the president and the prime minister who will conduct business during the period. transition period of several months supposed to bring civilians back to the head of the country.
ECOWAS insists that they are civilians.
The new masters of Bamako would like the president to be a soldier.
The ECOWAS imposed sanctions on Mali.
She will lift them, she says, as soon as civilian transitional leaders are chosen.
But last week it had left only a few days for the junta to comply with its demands.
The ECOWAS mediator in the Malian crisis, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, is expected in Mali earlier this week.
It is not known whether the college will choose a transitional president on Monday, the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of Mali's independence.
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The college must sit tomorrow,
" said on Sunday one of the leaders of the June 5 Movement, Imam Oumarou Diarra, on the sidelines of the discussions organized during the weekend between the junta and this collective which led for the protest movement against former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, until a group of officers deposed it on August 18.
The college is expected to include five representatives of the junta, two from the June 5 Movement, two religious and two members of civil society, according to a source within the process for its establishment.