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Burundi: tasteless presidential elections

By on June 4, 2010
The Burundian image today is in the turning down corner, and the old devils seem to have succeeded in seizing in the protagonists of a long race to the leadership. Does the image look like a badly left democracy? Thus it becomes legitimate to wonder about the future, and be afraid of the consequences of this litany, to which the African opinion and the international community are used. It can lead to the empty-chair policy. It is even necessary to be afraid that from disappointments to disappointments, the country might fall over again to the civil war.

The situation prevailing in Bujumbura shows one more time that the alternation remains a distant project in the continent. In fact, the African opposition is confronted with a real dilemma: pursue the electoral process even if the dices are thrown  in advance, at the risk of empowering  a polluted system; or throw in the towel, withdraw thus for the benefit of the holders of the power, the organisers of the elections. And that’s where the shoe pinches because, sooner or later, the instability will settle down, because of the extremists’ presence in each of the belligerent parties.
While other countries or other continents live appropriate alternations, where the loser hurries to recognise his defeat, and where the winner knows how to behave modest, sometimes going as far as holding out the hand to his opponent.
The African Union (UA), the neighbouring countries and regional organisations, should get involved as quickly as possible in the resolution of what is similar to a latent crisis that might turn in a strong smell of powder.

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