RCA: Elections postponed

By on May 3, 2010
The presidential and legislative elections, which the political class and the ex-rebellion have requested their postponement “will not be held on May 16” said President Francois Bozizé, without fixing a new date. However, he hinted that the new delay would exceed June 11, the official end date of his first term.

“It remains for us then to entrust the National Assembly to carry on the election process to its end” said Francois Bozizé, who took power in a coup on March 2003, then elected president after an election was held in May 2005. “Our Assembly should propose to us new texts; otherwise, we will end into a kind of “Somalisation”, he added, referring to the Somali civil war since 1991.
In his speech, the president of the National Assembly, Celestin Leroy Gaombalet, assured that «The parliament will start working out a text that will not affect the second term, or its tenure.
Previously, the spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Rigobert Vondo declared that this structure “could no longer, technically, take the period of organising the coming elections.”

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