The government put in place by the ruling junta in Guinea now binds the “normal return of the constitutional order» a general and administrative census of the population, among other prerequisites before the holding of legislative and presidential elections.
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The Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Mory Condé, detailed on Friday “ten steps“to lead to the return of power to elected civilians, without giving a timetable or setting a deadline, while the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summons Conakry to present “no later than April 25” a “acceptable timeline for transition“.
Mr. Condé made these remarks at the opening of the “inclusive consultation framework“, new forum supposed to facilitate the political transition next to the conference of “reconciliationin progress but shunned like her by many political organizations.
According to the sequence described by the Minister, the handing over of power to civilians must be preceded by the “general population census“, of “administrative census for civil status purposes“, of “the establishment of the electoral register», «drafting of the new Constitution», «the organization of the referendum poll», «drafting texts of organic laws“, before “the organization of local elections» then legislative, the «establishment of national institutions resulting from the new Constitution” and finally “the organization of the presidential election“.
“At least four years”
“Minister, we have at least four years to go, and if that’s the case, it’s the duty of a legal regime to do everything you’re suggesting to us here.“Reacted one of the participants, Cheick Tidiane Traoré, leader of the Movement for the Republic (MPR).
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya seized power by force on September 5, 2021 in Conakry, overthrowing President Alpha Condé, whose last years as head of state were marked by months of severely repressed protest.
Colonel Doumbouya has since had himself invested as President of the Republic and has pledged to return power to elected civilians, but without ever saying when.
Refusing to let ECOWAS or anyone else dictate a deadline, the officer assures that the calendar will be set by the National Transitional Council (CNT), an assembly that acts as a legislative body, of which he himself appointed the 81 members. , who have been sitting since February.
ECOWAS, which insisted in vain on the need to organize elections within six months of the September coup, suspended Guinea from its organs and imposed individual sanctions on members of the junta.
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The regional organization threatened on March 25 to impose on Guinea “economic and financial sanctions“wider”immediatelyafter April 25 if the junta does not comply with its ultimatum on the timetable for restoring power to civilians.