Faced with the press, the Mauritanian president has assured that he will not be a presidential candidate in April 2019. At the end of his two terms, Mohamed Abdel Aziz will leave power as provided for in the constitution. A scenario with Putin?
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An interview conducted in June 2016 where the Mauritanian president was already adamant on the respect of the constitution.
In a highly anticipated speech on 20 September, the President said loud and clear that he does not intend to amend the constitution, hastening to add that he will not accept either to “leave the field open to those who destroyed and looted the country’s resources. ” For many, this desire to block the road to “some” allows to think that a scenario to Putin-Medvevev is underway.
” Let’s be clear. What I said is clear. I said that I will not abandon Mauritania and personally, I will not touch the Constitution. I have said it over and over again, at least in terms of tinkering with the Constitution to do a third and fourth term, that is something else. But if I said that if I left power, that I had not marked a highway for people who were there, who destroyed Mauritania who destabilized it. I will stay here in Mauritania and do my utmost to ensure that what we have done, with the support of the Mauritanian people, with the support of my Government, that everything can continue, that the country can develop in security and stability . As for revealing what I will do in a year, in five years, I will not do, “said Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
These remarks were made in the wake of the legislative, regional and municipal elections ended by a landslide victory of the ruling party, the Union for the Republic (UPR), which won an absolute majority in parliament. The vote devotes the retreat of historical opposition (UFP, RFD) and the emergence of moderate Islamists Tawassoul as a possible alternative to the hegemony of the UPR. Note that this is the seventh time the Mauritanian president says he does not want to run for a third term.
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