Elections in Mauritania: a recipe for or resolve the crisis?

Elections in Mauritania: a recipe for or resolve the crisis?
Mauritanian authorities suddenly announced in a statement its intention to organize legislative and local elections soon, without specifying its deadlines, or ...
Amin Mohamed - Nouakchott


Mauritanian authorities suddenly announced in a statement its intention to organize legislative and local elections soon, without specifying its deadlines, or reveal new details on them, and left the door open to multiple readings and open questions about the level of assurance prepared by the Government for the organization of these entitlements.


According to the government statement which included the announcement of elections, the urgent Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the members of his government should be given special attention to mobilize in order to advance the process of restricting the population and the withdrawal of the national identity cards to create the conditions for electoral benefits.


And consider the government and the ruling majority for the upcoming elections in Mauritania as the paper the solution of the basic current political crisis, and called on the opposition demanding the departure of the system more than once to wait for the electoral process to express these demands in practice through the ballot box.


However, the opposition sees the announcement of elections close at the moment to escape forward, and reluctance to respond to what it calls the popular demands of the President and his regime to leave and let the citizens choose to freely run their own affairs.




Born Hanenna: There is no any objective conditions
To organize any election event (the island)
The president said periodic Coordination opposition parties Saleh Ould Hanenna of the island that are not available on any objective conditions technical or political organization of any election event in Mauritania, pointing out that the government announced the organization in the near future is merely a part of the media war and psychological meted out to opposition Shell in order to weaken the movement and activities aimed to overthrow the system.


And whether it contained the opposition's participation in the forthcoming elections said that Almnsagah did not discuss the subject until now, but it certainly will not participate in any elections do not possess all the conditions and objective conditions, which apply to the forthcoming elections, stressing that any election is a compromise and complete requirements would only make matters more complicated.


Messages
Indicates a political analyst captain Mauritanian journalists Hussein was born to Amdo that the Declaration of the Government of Mauritania for organizing near local and legislative elections came a message of reassurance to the inside and outside, and try to override the holidays to give the impression that struck the electoral process since October / November last year.


He noted in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that the authorities expect that the temptations offered by the elections, and required by the system relative who will be on the basis of the election of incentives and temptations may push some opposition parties to participate in the elections, or at a minimum pay some of its cadres to run as independents in the event What if the opposition boycotted these elections, but opposition is itself in the protection of being misled by such temptations.


With regard to barriers that may prevent the organization of elections in the near future, said Born Amdo there technical obstacles and other political, the most beautiful in the difficulty of organizing a successful election before March / March of next year, and the fact that the political horizon does not seem ready now to agree between the majority and the system.




Hussein was born Amdo: Declaration of election came a message of reassurance to the inside and outside (the island)
Controversy after the delay
It was assumed in accordance with the deadlines specified in the Constitution of Mauritania to organize legislative elections in October / November last, but it was postponed for reasons the government says it is not related to the technical readiness of civil status documents on which voters will vote.


The delay continued for the legislative elections to the big debate among the political class of Mauritania for justifications, its causes, says the opposition that led to the disruption of constitutional institutions and will loose the current parliament, its legitimacy, while invoking the government fatwa issued by the Constitutional Council to allow the extension of the work of Parliament until May / May.


In March / March, a "parliamentary conference" between the joint houses of parliament to approve constitutional amendments emerged from the dialogue between the ruling majority assembled and four opposition parties, the end of last year, and allowed these amendments to extend the validity of the parliament until the election of a new parliament.


But parliamentarians Coordination opposition parties boycotted the conference and paid disqualified the current parliament to pass any laws by the end of the Momoreth in October / November last, they say, while maintains the majority advisory opinion of the Constitutional Council extended the validity of the Parliament, and the amendment passed by Parliament in its conference held in March / March the past and allowed to extend the validity of Parliament until the new elections.