2024-04-16 19:24:01
For the CNRD, the definition of the notion of mandate limitation is clearly variable. For General Mamadi Doumbouya and his comrades, mandate limitation, when it applies to oneself and when it relates to someone else, the difference East in size. In the first case, the limitation is something rather elastic. In short, we can allow ourselves a certain amount of slippage. But when it applies to others, care must be taken to ensure that the limitation is strictly respected. This is essentially what the municipal councilors from the local election of February 4, 2018 learned to their cost. They who have been being replaced for several days by members of the new special delegations.
End of mandate of municipal councils in the context of a transition
In a decree taken On March 27, 2024, the President of the transition General Mamadi DOUMBOUYA dissolved the municipal councils as he announced in his end-of-year 2023 speech.
It is obvious that the mandate of these municipal councils, resulting from the local elections of 2018, had come to an end. Logic would therefore dictate that they give way to the new elected officials. But we also remember that if the dynamic agreement carrying particularly on the duration the transition in Guinea, concluded between ECOWAS and CNRD, had been respected in the course of the different steps of the timeline, the new local elections should have already taken place. Officially putting end of mandatet of these municipal councilors elected under the Alpha CONDE regime. Unfortunately, the CNRD and its president preferred reverse the order of priorities, relegating the political aspect to the last plan of the transition.
If we remain in the spirit of the rectification announced by the leaders of the moment, were they then obliged to reproduce the same pattern as Alpha CONDE who in the past, shortly after coming to power in 2010,shut up dissolves the municipal councils which had been in place since 2005, to install in their place people committed to his cause? Although the latter ashut up finally rectified the situation subsequently, by furnishing these municipal councils in proportion to the votes obtained by the political parties in the 2015 presidential election. Subsequently, real local elections had SO eu place in 2018.
It would therefore have been more sensé, to be in harmony with the spirit of the break with certain decried practices of the past and the rectification promiseto maintain exceptionalllly these elected to the mandate although expired, so that they work on the proper preparation of the next local elections, thus taking advantage of all the experience they have acquired in the management of their localities; but also and above all their mastery of the realities of these areas.
Failing that, the other approach which would have been even more inclusive, was to start on the basis of the results of the 2020 presidential election to allocate quotas to political parties in proportion to their results. Then civil society organizations on the basis of their level of representation on the national territory.
The paradox of the observance of principles and commitments by the CNDR
The method of devolution of political power in democracy is elections, the CNRD having suddenlydisrupted the constitutional order September 5, 2021 by overthrowing Alpha CONDE, does not hold its legitimacy by the legal contentEU of the dynamic agreement concluded with ECOWAS over the duration of the transition, with a view to the implementation ofs ten steps of the timeline. According to this agreement, the transition ends at the end of 2024. However, without even waiting for the end of the two years, the leaders of the moment announcent that they would give each other au minimum one more year, without consulting either ECOWAS or the actors concerned by the outcome of the transition, that is to say the political and social actors.
At the same time, the president of the transition whose lease is therefore supposed end this yeare, is uncompromising regarding compliance with the deadline ofmandate of municipal executives whose members are all likewise resulting from universal suffrageare Guinean citizens. Hence the CNRD paradox ”one more year for us, zero more days for the rest of you”. That two weights two measures! What an inconsistency !!!
Dura lex sed lex “the law is harsh, but it’s the law.”
If the observance of strict respect for the law, for the principles laid down, were to lead the president of the transition to necessarily and unceremoniously dissolve the municipal councils at the end of their mandate, what will happen when the transition of two years whose legitimacy and duration depend on the commitments included in the dynamic agreement concluded between the CNRD and ECOWAS will come to an end at the end of the year 2024? Would we be faced with the obligation to note this state of done, and install new leaders of the transition, to lead us towards the effective return to normal constitutional order
An act that hides two objectives?
Here is a syllogistic reasoning that summarizes what many observers thinkpolitical and social actors and citizens of the CNRD modus operandi since the beginning:
If the BEAVOGUI government was formed without consultation or inclusion of political parties and civil society organizations;
If the GOUMOU government was formed without consultation or inclusion of political parties and civil society organizations;
If the BAH Oury government was formed without consultation or inclusion of political parties and civil society organizations;
If the comunicipal councils were dissolved and replacedwithout consultation or inclusion of political parties and civil society organizations;
However, they are and remain the main actors concerned by the smooth running of the transition leading to national and local elections.
So the CNRD and its president Mamadi DOUMBOUYA are in the perspective to achieve two objectives at the same time: on the one hand, a gesexclusive tion of the transition and of the other, the tampering with future elections for the benefit of their designated candidate.
For all those who do not voluntarily hide their critical minds in their heads, it is clear to date that the Alpha CONDE killers played with all these citizens who welcomed them with a bang on September 5, 2021, as if they had definitely left the inn, filled with hopes of better days. Except that the days are getting darker and darker today, only giving a glimpse of a future just as black as the darkness that has enveloped the capital CONAKRY in recent times.
Wait and see.
Mamadou Oury DIALLO