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In Burkina Faso, reactions are beginning to be heard, 24 hours after ECOWAS decided yesterday not to take additional sanctions against Burkina Faso. The regional organization nevertheless asked the military, in power since the January 24 coup, for a reasonable timetable for a return to constitutional order.
With our special correspondent in Ouagadougou, Gaelle Laleix
What is a reasonable transition? This is the whole question that animates the Burkinabè political scene in the aftermath of an ECOWAS summit which spared Burkina Faso from sanctions.
« To talk about a republic, you have to be able to talk about a state and that is not possible with two thirds of our territory in the hands of terrorists. », Analyzes Eddie Komboigo. The priority must therefore first be to resolve the security situation according to the former leader of the opposition, and the active forces during this time must be ready to build the transition of tomorrow.
Eddie Komboigo, former opposition leader
« Our transition should not be too long “Said Lassina Ouattara, information secretary of the People’s Movement for the Progress of former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. ” Political uncertainty risks slowing down the economy, but also major development projects that we have with certain technical and financial partners. “, he concludes.
Lassina Ouattara, information secretary of the MPP
For Adama Congo, of the Patriotic Youth Organization, it is time to ” of construction of the democratic model to reinvent it. ” We have to wipe the slate clean, he explains, give the MPSR the chance to resolve the security issue and continue to ensure citizen monitoring of its actions ».