In the Comoros, a new “common front of the living forces” is being created, uniting the opposition union and all civil society movements in the archipelago as in the diaspora, condemning a constitutional coup by President Azali Assoumani.
With our Moroni correspondent, Anziza M’Changama
If he had not amended the Constitution, his mandate would end in a few months to make room for a president from the island of Anjouan in 2021. This is also one of the demands of this common front, which gave a press conference Thursday in capital to develop his strategy to oust the president of the republic.
According to Sabikia Ahmed Mzé, president of the Women’s Civil Society Movement, Azali Assoumani is only a tenant in the presidential palace and can be deported peacefully:
“This struggle today is no longer that of the opposition. It no longer exists. It is now resistance, she says. The opposition exists only in a democracy. We have no political prisoners, as there is no longer justice, we have hostages. Let’s start by denying him access to our towns and villages, our funerals, our mosques on Fridays. And not just to him, but to every member of his party. ”
French support request
This quarantine, Ahmed Barwane, SG from a political party, wants it to be international. He particularly trusts the last Foreign Affairs Committee this week in France: “Under this committee, Vice-President Jean-Paul Lecoq challenged his Foreign Minister on the issue of the dictatorship currently ruling the Comoros. We are in a phase of dictatorships. And that is why France must still be ready. We believe it can not continue to hide its face and continue to support dictators like Azali. ”
On the part of the majority, we say that we do not understand this kind of repeated intervention from losers in elections democratic.
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