A coalition of political parties in Mali have accused Military rulers of stalling on the transition calendar, which prescribes a return to civilian rule by February 2022.
The Coalition which was meeting in Bamako has demanded that the country’s junta organize elections next year, saying the Rulers are seeking to hold on to power.
In recent weeks, UN and ECOWAS delegations have been to Bamako in a bid to pressurize the authorities to move towards organizing elections.
Prime Minister Choguel Miaga has said that the polls could be delayed for months.
But an opposition activist Abacary Touré said “In case of prolongation of the transition without a consensual debate with all the sons of this country there, we have legal means that are guaranteed to us by the Malian constitution. We will very soon also invade the Boulevard of Independence very very soon to make ourselves heard,.
Mali’s transition was rocked by a May coup in which junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita overthrew the interim administration in which he served as vice president.
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