The 360.and – Video– Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani has decided to proceed with the dissolution of the National Assembly. Another decision, that of convening the electoral college for the legislative, regional and municipal elections on May 13, 2023, was made public the same day.
Mauritania is heading for legislative, regional and municipal elections next May, following the dissolution of the National Assembly and the convening of the electorate. Decisions that arouse various reactions from politicians and civil society.
Professor Lô Gourmo, vice-president of the Union of Progress Forces (UFP, opposition), head of the national list of this formation for the next legislative elections, specialist in law and Cheikh Sidaty Haiba, director of the newspaper Al-Akhbar, explain the decision of the authorities and its consequences on the configuration of the national political scene.
Pr Lô justifies the dissolution of the National Assembly by holding elections before the expiry of the current mandate. The dissolved assembly had been elected in September 2018, the electoral college is convened on May 13, 2023.
It recalls the constitutional prerogatives of the President of the Republic which formally confer on him the right of dissolution. But beyond that, the politician and specialist in law, returns to the legal debate of a general nature, about the differences of appreciation relating to the power to put an end to a mandate in progress and conferred by universal suffrage.
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Amadou Seck (Nouakchott, correspondence)
Source: Le 360.ma (Morocco)
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