Will the referendum for the adoption of the new Constitution take place or not? The power of Col Assimi Goïta holds hard to the project and now calls to abandon the calls for… abandonment.
The power of Transition and its loyal supporters now rule out any possibility of abandoning the referendum process in sight. Dr. Amadou Albert Maïga, the 1st Parliamentary Secretary of the National Transitional Council (CNT) echoed this last week. Asked by a journalist regarding the obstinacy to go to the polls around this Constitutrion project, while calls to abandon it are insistent, the young academic was clear. Why some people want us to give up, simply because they don’t find their interests in it. I think that we cannot agree with those who ask us to give up, because the Malian people are attached to this reform”, he assured. Before adding that if the detractors also speak in the name of the people, they must accept to campaign for the name and “we will see who will win between yes and no”.
For this influential member of the CNT who is said to be very close to the president of the parliamentary body of this Transition, Col Malick Diaw, it is now clearly necessary to oppose an end of inadmissibility to those who plead for the referendum process to be abandoned.
Before him, the Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, government spokesperson, Col Abdoulaye Maïga said in relation to this controversy over the abandonment or holding of the referendum, that it is “a minister, who must work to achieve the objectives assigned to the Transition”. Among these, there is the constitutional referendum to provide Mali with a new Constitution.
Let us remember that political parties and civil society organizations, including religious ones, experience their disagreement on the process. For some, the text has gaps (such as the question of secularism) and, for others, from the point of view of form and content, the conditions are not met to go to a new fundamental law.
Bruno D SEGBEDJI
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