Posted on March 10, 2023 at 3:01 p.m. by Hawa Toumagnon
The transition government informs national opinion in a press release made public this Friday, March 10 that the date of the referendum, scheduled for March 19, 2023, in the chronogram of the political, institutional and electoral reforms of the Transition, will experience a slight postponement.
“This postponement is justified by the firm will of the authorities of the Transition to apply the recommendations of the National Refoundation Meetings (ANR), in particular the full operationalization of the Election Management Authority”, explains the government in the same press release. signed by the Minister of State, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Government Spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga.
It is a question of achieving the operationalization of the Independent Authority for the Management of Elections (AIGE), through the installation of its branches in the 19 administrative regions of Mali and the District of Bamako, as soon as possible, as well as than the popularization of the draft Constitution. The new date of the referendum will be fixed, after consultation with the Independent Authority for the Management of Elections and all the actors of the electoral process.
The government also reassures national and international opinion that the return to constitutional order, after having carried out the necessary reforms, remains one of its absolute priorities, while respecting the duration of the Transition.
Already on Tuesday March 07, the Malian League of Imams and Scholars for Islamic Solidarity called on its members to vote against the draft new Constitution presented by the transition on Monday February 27. The organization of imams denounced the maintenance of the principle of secularism of the State compared to the Constitution of 1992. An aspect which was not disputed by the president of the high Islamic council, Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara. On February 21, 2023, a meeting of the political and institutional reform monitoring committee, in the presence of his HE the ECOWAS special envoy Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, brought together the other actors in the electoral process at MATD. This postponement comes at a time when the enrollment process for the biometric card is underway and is experiencing a certain slowness.
