The military junta in power in Burkina Faso announced Monday, January 31, to have restored the constitution which it had suspended a week earlier. This decision is accompanied by the modification of the institutions “pending the establishment of the transitional bodies”.
These are the provisions contained in a “fundamental act” read on national television by Lieutenant-Colonel Cyprien Kaboré. The text, apart from the lifting of the suspension of the Constitution, specifies that the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) “ensures the continuity of the State pending the establishment of transitional bodies”. Without giving any further details.
In addition, notes the fundamental act of 37 articles dated January 29, the MPSR is the central body for defining and guiding security, economic, social, development and restoration of territorial integrity policy. It is made up of a president, two vice-presidents, a coordinator and commissions.
It should be noted that the announcement of the fundamental act and its provisions coincided with the visit of a joint delegation of the UN and ECOWAS to the country. She met there Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who made himself, under the terms of the act, “President of Faso, Head of State, Supreme Head of the National Armed Forces”.
