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 Posted - 16 Jan 2009 : 13:35:22
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Africa and its fiddlers of Constitution :
We are recalling some giant leaders like
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algérie) Paul Barthélémy Biya (Cameroun) Idriss Déby (Tchad) Yoweri Museveni (Ouganda) Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) : Blaise Compare (Burkina Zina Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisie) Feu Gnassingbé Eyadema (Togo) : Lassana Conté/MHRP(Guinée)
A many Heads of State remove the limitations of mandates to last forever with the capacity
The list undoubtedly will lengthen during next years. The Constitution in Africa is finally anything else only one tool legal which makes it possible to the Heads of State to carry out their personal intention. The constitution, like says it the song, became a jacket that each one crosses, size and with its measurement.
The putsches, last year, in Guinea and Mauritania, caused a wave of protest within the international community. But there exists, in Africa, another form of coup in front of which this community remains quite quiet: the handling of Constitution practiced by Heads of State to last forever with the capacity. These last years, they multiplied on the continent.
It is an exploit in Africa. But elsewhere, that remains an ordinary fact. John Kufuor, the outgoing Ghanaian president, leaves the capacity after two mandates without to have sought with tripatouiller the Constitution to be maintained there. Before his withdrawal, he even presented his excuses at the Ghanaians whom he would have offended during his eight years of supreme office .
Here is a beautiful lesson of wisdom and respect of the fundamental Law of a country. A lesson which should be used for a number of his African counterparts like With the Mamadou Tandja of Niger, for example. Elected official Head of State in December 1999, the president arrives at the end of his second and last mandate in December 2009. But any door to believe that Mr. Tandja will cling to his presidential armchair. This year of the calls, known as “spontaneous”, for his maintenance with the multiplied. Latest to date, that of some of his partisans who, at the time of a demonstration on December , asked the Parliament to prolong three years the mandate of the president. “We ask the president of the Republic to accept our humble proposal … at its next sessions”, they had declared. Thus the president would be done requested to remain with the capacity longer than do not allow him the legal provisions.
This scenario which has an air of already considering elsewhere in Africa, is anything else only one operation intended to prepare the opinion with a possible modification or skirting of the Constitution. That was the case in Togo in 2002.
In Cameroun, Paul Biya could not, either, to resist to him temptation to be maintained in his presidential throne. On 2007, in the wishes of new year presented at his fellow-citizens, the Cameroonian president, with the capacity since 1982, had announced with his compatriots, his intention to gum constitutional texts the limitation of the number of mandates.
President Biya makes them a series of promises which he know that will never profiled.
an immunity to him after its reign.
Idriss Diby (Chad) : The Constitution of Chad was modified in 2005 to make it possible to the president to be candidate for his own succession in 2006, and to preserve the capacity which he seized since his coup in 1990.
Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) : The Ugandan president handled the Constitution of his country in 2005 to be maintained with the capacity. he occupies the presidential armchair since tooking it by the weapons in 1986.
Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) : In Gabon, the limitation of the number of mandates was removed in 2003 to allow president Bongo, with the capacity since 1967, to arise as many time as it wishes it with a presidential election.
Blaise Compare (Burkina Faso) : With the capacity since his coup in 1987, the Burkinabe president had removed the limitation of the number of mandates in 1997 to be candidate and had re-elected with presidential of 2008. It restored, in 2000, this limitation at two five-year periods.
Zine Abidine (Tunisia) : In 2002, the fundamental Law of Tunisia was changed to allow president Ben Ali, with the capacity since 1987, to arise at its own succession at presidential of 2004. The Constitution limited the number of presidential mandates to three.
G Eyadema (Togo) : In Togo, the Parliament voted the limitation of mandates, at the end of 2002, to allow former president Gnassingbe Eyadema to be made re-elect for third a five years mandate. he had being there for 36 years already.
Lansana Conte/ MHRP(Guinea) : The former Guinean president had made vote the modification of the Constitution in 2002 to allow him to be made re-elect with the head of Guinea in 2003 whereas he had just completed his second and last mandate.
I badly agrees with the idea even democratic choice…
We thus go in this spirit, to re-examine the provisions of our Constitution which would deserve to be harmonized with the recent projections of our democratic system in order to answer waitings of the great majority of our population, it most not be "A jacket that each one crosses to measurement"!!!!
We most wake up while the time has run out!!!
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