“Mali’s Electoral College Convenes to Decide on Draft Constitution: Referendum Postponed to June 2023”

2023-05-05 10:10:01

« The electoral college is convened on Sunday, June 18, 2023 throughout the national territory and in the diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Mali in order to decide on the draft Constitution », Indicates a decree read on national television by the government spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, reports AFP. Members of the security forces will vote in advance on June 11, it is specified.

“Voters will have to answer yes or no to the following question: ‘Do you approve of the draft Constitution’? “, added this Friday the spokesperson.

This referendum is the first step validated by the vote of a calendar of consultations and reforms that the colonels themselves communicated and which must lead to elections in February 2024 with a view to a return of civilians to business.

The referendum was initially announced for March 19. It had been postponed on March 10 : and ” slight postponement “, had specified the spokesman of the transitional government. The government then assured that the date for the end of the transition, set for February 2024, would be respected.

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