Presidential election in Mali: controversy over the electoral register

Contested electoral file, "fictitious polling stations": in a coordinated way, in Bamako with his campaign team and in the field, the camp of Soumaïla Cisssé, candidate and leader of the Malian opposition in the presidential election of July 29, denounced Friday what he calls "fraud in preparation" in the perspective of the presidential election. The presidential camp denies him these accusations.

The camp of the leader of the Malian opposition is angry. He fears "mbadive fraud in the presidential election". And what ignites the powders is the electoral file officially put online.

Tiébilé Dramé, campaign director of the candidate Soumaïla Cissé, explains: " We found that an official file was put online by the general delegation to the elections. For us, it is neither more nor less than a parallel file that is distinct from the file audited on April 27 . "

These errors may be" unintended "continues Tiébélé Framé," but we end up with hundreds of thousands of potentially fictitious voices. And that's dangerous. And that can skew the results of an election.

We will not go to elections with such a file

We will not go to the elections with a spoiled electoral file, parallel. Which options? How to correct? The government has proposed a meeting of the consultation framework. For us, the extent of the findings, their severity, make technical solutions not enough. It takes political measures with the involvement of representatives of the international community in Bamako, here .

In the countryside inside Mali where he gathers like others crowds, the candidate Soumaïla Cissé has this Friday also addressed the subject in front of its activists. " We discovered thousands of names in double, triple, quadruple, even sometimes fivefold, ensures Soumaïla Cissé. We discovered fictitious offices. We discovered fictional centers. We discovered voters without a photo. We have discovered whole communes where the number of voters is supposed to be zero. It is because we discovered a vast fraud . "

The URD, the party of Soumaïla Cissé and its numerous allies, do not intend to go to a presidential election with this electoral file which would not correspond to the one that was audited in May by the International Organization of la Francophonie.

IBK supporters call for solutions together

According to the opposition, which also talks about duplicates, there could be more than one million two hundred thousand "fictitious voices" . A charge refuted by Abdou Soumaïla Maïga, national political secretary of the APR, Alliance for the Republic, and support of the current president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta .

According to him, the file that was audited is the one used in the preparation of electoral cards, and that is all that matters. " We, we think it was very difficult to do this job of making voter cards on the basis of a file that is not the one that is audited.

We are waiting for the evidence in relation to that. There may be a file that has been posted I do not know at which level. But what is certain is that it is this audited file, declared acceptable, that was used to make the voter cards that are available today and are broken down everywhere for distribution. That's very important.

In fact, we are all engaged in a process. If it turns out that there are really difficulties at one level, it is together that we must seek solutions. But for us today, perhaps the evidence must first be given that there is an error. But only to spend time accusing without proposing solutions, that too, does not facilitate the task .

The Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga received Friday a delegation of the executive board of campaign of Soumaïla Cissé, to rebadure the good faith of the government