Africa new electoral cycle

Twitter Share on Facebook Share on . Compartment in Google Plus  emeritus professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid Head of state and legislative elections will be held in 17 African states in  and will follow in with national elections in a further 13 states. What are the basic dimensions of the environment in which these elections are made. Basically, they can be  in three. The first is the tendency towards strong political instability. The crises that have brought the military to power through coups d’état, especially in the Sahel.  To which we must add the social unrest  by the brutal increase in the cost of life, the rise in energy prices and the greater food insecurity. From the war in Ukraine.

The second is insecurity marked by ethnolinguistic

Religious divisions, and the increasingly strong jihadist presence, with Nigeria – with  increase of political violence. The same can be said in terms of Kuwait WhatsApp Number Data  insecurity and violence.  The presence of thousands of mercenaries from the Russian company. Respects in immense territories where States are conspicuous by their absence. Causing millions of  people. Mostly women and children. At the same time to the polls in March for a constitutional referendum in which “the unitary character of the Malian State closing the door to that some saw as a solution.

The independence aspirations of the North

In any case, this new version of the Constitution offers the possibility for some local languages ​​to gain the status of official language. In Mali there will be legislative elections in  with strong challenges consisting of . Organizing a vote in a country in which a large part of the territory France WhatsApp Number List  escapes the control of the State, ensuring  and guaranteeing transparency. Given the history the fall of the President. In Senegal, the political  amnesty and an amendment to the . Electoral Law. The third dimension of . The electoral environment is the backdrop of the high poverty rates of the population. The subsequent economic crisis and international and national conflict, as well as powerlessness to change the rules of the game abstention in Côte d’Ivoire and Benin.