One could see there only an apothecary's account, a quarrel around a date.
But the impossibility of fixing a precise day for the next presidential election in Mali, more than twenty months after the coup d'etat which ousted Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta from power, hides more than that.
The junta, chaired by Colonel Assimi Goïta, claims two years before returning power to civilians, while the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional organization, requires between twelve and sixteen months at most.
The difference, a few months, seems very tenuous, especially since the soldiers at the head of the transition had already undertaken to organize a poll on February 27, before changing their minds.
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