Colonel Assimi Goita seems decisive, if not very decisive, about the constitutional revision, the document of which will be submitted to referendum. Despite the differences of opinion, he remains straight in his boots. Witness the maintenance of secularism, for it is said the interest of Mali, in the document of the new constitution that it has already validated. Thus challenging, the League of Imams and Scholars of Mali (IMAMA) which now adds to the opponents of the new constitution.
In its request, LIMAMA argues that Mali has more than 95% Muslims. She believes that this majority fact should be taken into account in the new constitution, something that seems to her to be an essential foundation of Democracy. “Obviously, the pure and simple withdrawal of secularism in all its forms from the draft constitution, will be the real starting point for the refoundation of the State of Mali”, considers LIMAMA.
According to many observers, President Assimi challenged LIMAMA, who saw his proposal to replace secularism with multi-confessionalism in the new constitution fell on deaf ears. In the sense that the President of the transition has already validated the new constitution document. And there remains only the referendum which has been postponed until now indefinitely.
According to some members of the commission for the finalization of the new constitution document, the withdrawal of secularism from the Malian constitution is detrimental to peace because it could open the way to any kind of conflict. While waiting for the referendum vote, the Imams and Scholars seem on their war footing. Since they call to vote against the constitutional revision.
A way of showing their dissatisfaction with the authorities of the transition who did not maintain the term secularism in the new constitution to the detriment of their proposal. Beyond the campaign to popularize the document, what steps will the president of the transition take to bring this important layer of society back to reason? A question worth its weight in gold.
Massassi
Source : Mali24.Infos