{"id":688,"date":"2021-04-17T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parliamentnews360.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2021-04-17T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:35:35","slug":"malis-aissata-cisses-pap-presidential-dream-suffers-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parliamentnews360.com\/index.php\/malis-aissata-cisses-pap-presidential-dream-suffers-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali\u2019s Aissata Cisse\u2019s PAP Presidential Dream suffers Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ambition of\u00a0Hon.\u00a0Ha\u00efdara Aissata Ciss\u00e9\u00a0to run for the President of the\u00a0Pan African Parliament (PAP)\u00a0in May 2021 appear to have suffered another setback following the announcement by Mali\u2019s Transitional Government that presidential and parliamentary elections would hold on February 27, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implication of this development is that Hon. Cisse\u2019s<\/strong> membership of the Transitional National Council (CNT)<\/strong> would end by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the Rules of the Pan African Parliament<\/strong>, members going for elections back home are required to vacate their seats at PAP<\/strong> and be sworn in if re-elected. Hon. Cisse<\/strong> had vacated her position as the Second Vice President at PAP <\/strong>for election back in Mali in March 2020. She won re-election but the military coup in August 2020 resulted in the takeover of the government and the dissolution of the elected parliament. She is yet to return or be sworn in at PAP <\/strong>since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This announcement of the February 2022 election is compounded by reports that the Pan African Parliament<\/strong>  may reject Mali delegation<\/strong> following a similar treatment by the ECOWAS Parliament which argued that the National Transitional Council (CNT)<\/strong>, the body entrusted with legislative power in Mali was not elected but appointed by the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports, the President of the Transition, by decree No 2021_0001 \/ PT-RM of January 04, 2021, confirmed the appointment of Hon. Cisse<\/strong> as a member of the CNT. <\/strong>Shereplaced Imam Oumarou Diarra<\/strong>, an influential member of the M5-RFP who resigned from the<\/strong> CNT<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following her appointment to the <\/strong>CNT<\/strong>, <\/strong>Hon. Cisse<\/strong> immediately announced her candidacy for the Presidency of the Pan-African Parliament. According to a statement she released on January 4, 2021, the declaration was \u201c<\/strong>In order to continue my mandate and make my candidacy as President of the Pan-African Parliament reality, I have just been appointed to the CNT\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

African Parliamentary News<\/strong> recalls that on August 18, 2020 young military officers overthrew Mali\u2019s elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita<\/strong> after a wave of protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parliamentary elections had been held in March and April 0920. Popular unrest began on June 5, 2020 following alleged irregularities in the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with international sanctions, the military officers handed over to a caretaker government which promised to organize elections within eighteen months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ambition of\u00a0Hon.\u00a0Ha\u00efdara Aissata Ciss\u00e9\u00a0to run for the President of the\u00a0Pan African Parliament (PAP)\u00a0in May 2021 appear to have suffered another setback following the announcement by Mali\u2019s Transitional Government that presidential and parliamentary elections would hold on February 27, 2022. The implication of this development is that Hon. Cisse\u2019s membership of the Transitional National Council (CNT) would end by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[275,277,279,64,52,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pap","8":"tag-cnt","9":"tag-hon-haidara-aissata-cisse","10":"tag-mali-delegation","11":"tag-pan-african-parliament","12":"tag-pap","13":"tag-transitional-national-council"},"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n