Mamadou Koulibaly calls the mobilization of all for the municipal and regional

The Ivorian opponent, Mamadou Koulibaly, candidate declared the presidential election of 2020, Thursday appealed to all mobilized for the municipal and regional elections of October 13 in the Ivory Coast saying that everyone is concerned.

You see that in the planning of development, in the daily administration as well as in the social organization, the commune is a very important element of the constituencies. So people have to mobilize because everyone is concerned, Koulibaly urges in a video recording on Thursday, it's Koulibaly, a short video that he broadcasts every Thursday on the web to analyze a question of news of his country.

In addition to this importance of the commune for local development, Mr. Koulibaly, who is also the former President of Liberty and Democracy for the Republic (LIDER, an opposition political party), also declared the insufficiency of the means granted to the municipal councils for the efficient management of their localities.

Where there is the concern, at the same time, that the mayor is given 16 areas of competence by law, he is not given any means. It is a difficulty and a situation to change completely, he said indicating that when I will be president, I propose to modify this law and to accompany the communal movement.

Continuing, the former president of the Ivorian parliament, suggested that for the communes of the interior of the country, for example, it will be necessary to accompany them by a financial, state and fiscal regime.

This lack of means, he insisted, hampers the good management of the municipality. Where things become even more difficult for communal management is that the municipal budget is adopted six or seven months after the beginning of the execution of the State budget. How do you want the mayors to work in good conditions by putting all these barriers ?, he asked himself saying that it entails corruption.

million. Koulibaly concluded his address by calling readers to be lucid in their choice this election by distinguishing the candidates who can bring the development of the township of those who come to enrich themselves.

Wednesday, at the end of a council of ministers, the Ivorian government has announced that the municipal and regional elections are fixed on October 13, 2018.

LB / ls / APA