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On Saturday, October 31, the campaign for the presidential and legislative elections begins on November 22. 13 candidates including the outgoing president and one woman will win the election. This campaign is held in a tense security context. The country has registered nearly one million internally displaced people after attacks attributed to jihadists. Several parts of certain regions are in uncertainty, one of the challenges for the candidates is to meet these populations who feel abandoned.
For this start of the campaign, several candidates have decided to go and meet populations living in areas preyed upon by attacks by armed groups. For example, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo from the Agir ensemble movement begins with the city of Kaya before moving towards the Sahel region.
As for Zéphirin Diabré, from the Union for Progress and Change, following Tenkodogo in the center-east, he will move towards the eastern region. This is where the campaign for former President Yacouba Isaac Zida’s team should start in principle.
“They have no choice but to go to these areas if they intend to show voters that the fight against insecurity and terrorism is part of their priority,” explains political scientist Abdoul Karim Saïdou, a professor at Thomas Sankara University.
The General Communications Council, for its part, has provided a timetable for the passage of the various presidential and legislative candidates on television and public radio. It is the same in the columns of the daily Sidwaya. According to Abdoul Aziz Bamogo, Vice-President of the Higher Council on Communications, the creation of these spaces responds to a concern for transparency and justice.
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