Malik launches four-day forum to return to civilian authority | Politics News

The military-led government is holding a national assembly as an opportunity to push for change after the August 2020 coup.

The government, which is dominated by the military in Mali, has launched a four-day national forum to return the country to a civilian state after the August 2020 coup.

Authorities are calling for a “National Reform Conference” as an opportunity to push for change, but major groups have already slammed the project and said they will boycott it.

The meeting “will make an ongoing assessment of the state of the nation [and] learn the best lessons, ”said Mali’s transitional president. Assimi Goita Colonel, he said at Monday’s opening ceremony.

“It will also be up to you to make specific proposals, to come up with a solution to end the crisis,” he said.

Mali has been one of the poorest countries in the world since its independence from France in 1960.

In August 2020, young officers led by Goita flip elected president of the country, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, after perceiving corruption and managing a bloody uprising after street protests.

Under pressure from residents of France and Mali, Goita promised that he would return to Mali in February 2022 after returning to the civilian government after the presidential and legislative elections.

But in May of this year, he performed one de facto second movement, forcing the interim civilian government and breaking the schedule.

On December 12, Goita told ECOWAS that he would give the West African regional bloc a new election calendar for January 31.

Malik has a long history of discussing issues and making solutions for national consultations.

But a number of major parties and social organizations have condemned the process this time around, demanding that elections be held quickly or criticizing the sterile discussions.

The national forum follows local meetings, which were held in 51 of the 60 areas, with exceptions in the northern regions of Kidal and Menaka. They also performed in 26 foreign locations in the Mali diaspora.

Mali was shed in 2012 when Tuareg rebels launched a riot in the north.

After being dispersed as a result of French military intervention, the rebels rallied and moved the campaign to central Mali, to an ethnic ashtray, and then to nearby Niger and Burkina Faso.

Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.