2023-09-25 12:11:37
The junta in power in Mali announced Monday the postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 2024 and supposed to mark the return of civilians to the head of this country in the grip of jihadism and a deep multidimensional crisis.
The dates initially set for February 4 and 18, 2024 for the two rounds “will be slightly postponed for technical reasons,” said government spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga in a statement read to journalists in Bamako.
The authorities cite among these “technical reasons” factors linked to the adoption in 2023 of a new Constitution and the revision of the electoral lists, but also a dispute with a French company, Idemia, involved according to them in the process at the level of the census.
“The new dates for the presidential election will be the subject of (a) press release later,” says the government.
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