Envoys from ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations continued their mission of “preventive diplomacy” in Abidjan on Tuesday. After the president, after the ministers and institutions responsible for the election yesterday, they met on Tuesday, October 6, with the presidential candidates on October 31, as well as with the political parties, the RHDP and the opposition. The opposition, which still rejects Ouattara’s candidacy, which it considers unconstitutional, and which still demands a new CEI, a new constitutional council, a revision of the electoral list and the return of the exiles, led by Gbagbo and Soro.
as reported from Abidjan,
To the envoys from the UN, AU and ECOWAS, the opposition leaders, who came in large numbers, officially reminded the list of their demands. But at the end of the meeting, one read suspicion of their faces. “We are not disappointed, we are concerned when we comply with the reservations of the African Union, which so far has not condemned the fact that Côte d’Ivoire is not implementing the human rights decisions of the African Court of Justice. If what we ask for cannot be achieved within the remaining time to go to the next presidential election, it is obvious that the date of the election must be postponed, ”said Albert Toikeusse Mabri, President of the UDPCI.
24 days before the election date, the issue of postponement takes shape in the opposition’s speeches. And for the first time, a concrete proposal has been made in this direction by FPI candidate Pascal Affi N’Guessan. “Provided we focus on the election: three months. In our hypothesis, where we want to rebuild completely, and that is what we said to the mission, our preference would have been for us to open a presidency of at least twelve months to put everything in order. Because the country needs an overhaul. We can do it, but it is a political project. If we do not want this transition, we need to guarantee truly transparent elections, and in any case, we need to give ourselves three months. ”
■ The Soro affair will soon be heard
The former president of the National Assembly, in exile in France for nine months, is the subject of an arrest warrant for conspiracy and attempted assault on authority in the state. Prosecutor Richard Adou announced on Tuesday, October 6, that the case of Guillaume Soro and about twenty of his relatives would be sent to the public prosecutor for trial in the criminal court.
It is in the hall of the lost steps in the Abidjan court, reports our correspondent in Abidjan Sidy Yansané, that the public prosecutor Richard Adou detailed the results of the judicial investigation concerning Guillaume Soro and 46 other suspects who were prosecuted in part of the investigation of a alleged coup attempt.
For nineteen of them, the results of the survey were completed in a dismissal. Eight others, including Deputy Kanigui Soro and the former candidate for mayor of Abobo Tehfour Koné, are being referred to the criminal court for offenses, including disturbing public order and disseminating false news.
For Guillaume Soro and the last nineteen, among whom his two brothers Simon and Rigobert Soro, Deputy Alain Lobognon and Souleymane Koné Kamaraté alias Soul to Soul, weigh the threat of a trial by assises, since renamed the criminal court.
Lawyer Affoussy Bamba Lamine is also concerned. Guillaume Soros’s adviser, also in France, condemns RFI “a rude editing and a file full of lies to prevent her client from running for president on October 31”.
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