Following the issue of uncertainty, national reconciliation took a strong place in the election campaign, which ended with a vote that gave President Kaboré a second term, according to preliminary figures from CENI. A reconciliation with its shadow differences in the case of Blaise Compaoré.
“The issue of national reconciliation is crucial,” said Achile Tapsoba, first deputy head of the Eddie Komboïgo campaign. An observation shared by Clément Sawadogo, MPP’s First Vice President and Spokesman for President Kaboré, which in turn specifies that it will continue after the election “as President Kaboré has planned to open a meeting in the coming months on this issue”.
But in the shadow of national reconciliation, which the president and the candidates are hoping for, is the case of Blaise Compaoré. Driven from power in 2014 after 27 years of rule thanks to the popular uprising, he, and in particular his return to Burkina Faso, shares Burkinabè.
“We must cure the real diseases of society”
“For us, the issue cannot be traced back to the case of Blaise Compaoré because it is still a riot. […] There are several people who felt cheated in their rights or in their lives and we can not reduce the issue to a simple arrangement that allows Blaise Compaoré to return, says Clément Sawadogo. About President Kaboré did not refuse the hand that Blaise Compaoré extendedhowever, it presupposes that it returns to the process of reconciliation which it will introduce.
On the side of the Komboïgo clan, the return of the former president to the country is more necessary. “National reconciliation certainly does not come to the Blaise Compaoré issue but could not be done without the support of Blaise Compaoré,” estimates the CDP tenor.
The question of whether or not to support the former president, who is now being banished to Côte d’Ivoire, may have had an impact on the election. But for the party in power, the person Blaise Compaoré is not necessarily the solution: “We must treat the real diseases of society. Burkinabè rose because there were problems. The problems facing Burkinabè must be solved globally, says Clément Sawadogo.
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