The former Minister of Youth and Sports of Senegal, Abdoulaye Mactar Diop, does not seem to be in phase with the decision of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to hand Ibrahima Boubacar Keïta to the head of the Malian government.
Indeed, he believes that “Mali has come to an important turning point and asking for the return to normal constitutional order if that means putting IBK and his team back in power, that will not work. You remember Burkina Faso with General Diendéré who had agreed to hand over power, which subsequently led him to prison. Do you think the Malian soldiers don’t think about that? “Asks the vice president of the National Assembly.
For Abdoulaye Mactar Diop, today, the only solution for the instability of Mali is above all to return to the fundamental security concern which is none other than to accelerate the process of organizing new transparent, democratic and sincere elections. Because the more people stay in this situation, the more the Jihadists can still reposition themselves in this territory whose control almost escapes the central Malian state. ECOWAS is in its role to demand the closure of the borders, the condemnation of the coup, the restoration of democracy, but asking to put IBK and its government back to power will be absolutely useless ”, he believes. .
Questioned on the request for the maintenance of sanctions against the Putschists announced by the heads of state of ECOWAS, the vice president of the national assembly considers that “ECOWAS must rethink its mission to safeguard democracy in Africa and to draw conclusions of the repeated failures of its missions. The reality in Mali today is that the president can no longer be returned to power ”.
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