Mali: Military Authorities Propose Five-Year Extension of Transition Period
The Mali authorities proposed a five-year extension of the transition period for the formation of the new government. However, a union of political parties rejected the military government's plan of five-year transition before elections. Mali’s military leaders recently released a new timetable for the transition period. The political parties rejected the new timetable. They said that the “unilateral and unreasonable” timetable was in violation of the transition charter. Under the new timetable, the next presidential election was put off until 2026. Presidential election on hold One of the members of the union said that the reason for the extension was not valid. Reportedly, they cited security concerns for putting off the presidential election . However, the security problems steadily declined for a decade in Mali. Doussouba Konaté, a worker of the Mali office of Accountability Lab, said that there is some truth to the claim that elections cannot be held due to security con...