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Niger: Dissatisfactions about the new electoral code
By African Bulletin on June 4, 2010
The new electoral code of Niger continues to make waves within the political class in spite of its amendment by the military leaders. The Coordination of the democratic Forces for the Republic ( CFDR), which includes all the parties having vetoed the former president Tanja’s extension term, published on Wednesday, a declaration related to this electoral code.
It says:” Despite all observed considerations, we noticed that among all the observations that have been made, some more relevant than the others, were not taken into account by the military junta “, has voiced Mamane Chaïbou, the CDS-Rahama party’s spokesman and member of the CFDR. “We reacted and spoke up, to show that we are trying to restore democracy, but today, we are heading in the opposite direction”, declared Mr. Chaïbou. He judges “extreme” to require voters’ identification cards and passports, and “we know that the rate of participation is going to be extremely low for the good reason that many inhabitants of Niger have neither passport, nor national ID card”, he underlined. However, Mr. Mamane Chaibou showed some satisfaction on the fact that a new prescription allows to display the family book in place of the passport and the national ID card. However, grievances remain, by pointing out that the CSRD retained only five of the 25 amendments proposed by the CFDR.