This duration is greater than that of thirty months that had been proposed by a technical commission set up by the junta in early February.
Le Monde with AFP
The transition period before a return to the constitutional order in Burkina Faso was fixed at three years, specifies a charter signed Tuesday 1 March by the leader of the junta who reversed the January 24 The elected President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, found a journalist from France-Press (AFP).
“The duration of the transition is fixed at thirty-six months from the date of the investiture of the President of the Transition”, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, stipulates a “Constitutional Charter of the Transition “He has signed at the end of the national sitting work bringing together” the lively forces “of the country who will invest it on Wednesday.
The duration of this transition period is greater than that of thirty months proposed by a technical commission put in place by the Junta in early February and a draft charter which was discussed for several hours by the National Assises Monday and Tuesday .
The work of these seats involved the junta, parties, unions, civil society organizations, youth, women and people displaced by jihadist attacks that hit Burkina Faso since 2015.
“Strengthen governance and fight against corruption”
The Charter also states that the President of the Transition “is not eligible for the presidential, legislative and municipal elections to be organized to end the transition”. This provision also applies to the twenty-five members of the transitional government, including “the Prime Minister is a civilian personality”.
In addition to the President and the Government, the organs of the transition include a “guidance and monitoring of the transition”, setting “the main orientations of state policy”, and a “legislative assembly of transition “composed of 75 members, according to the Charter.
It says that two of the main missions of the transition are “to fight against terrorism, restore the integrity of the national territory” and “ensure security”, and “provide an effective and urgent response to the humanitarian crisis and to socio-economic and community dramas caused by insecurity “. It will also have to “strengthen governance and the fight against corruption”.
In addition to the reproach of helplessness in the face of jihadist groups, the reverse president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré – in residence supervised in Ouagadougou from Putsch – was also accused of not having been efficient in the fight against corruption.