The delegates had been locked up for three days at the Bamako International Center for the National Assizes of Refoundation (ANR).
The ambitions of this vast consultation wanted by the junta in power since August 2020 were high: to launch the foundations of a new state to allow development, and above all to put an end to the insecurity that has ravaged the country for nearly eight years.
The organizers had warned that the decisions of these meetings would be
"enforceable"
.
The reality was more pragmatic.
If the workshops addressed all the themes well, after several weeks of consultation across the country, the only thing that really mattered seemed to be the establishment of an electoral calendar, and therefore the duration of the transition.
Under pressure from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional body, the military in power were supposed to organize a ballot in February 2022. The junta wanted an eighteen-month delay. , citing persistent insecurity ...
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