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When 31 years as president is not enough, you change the constitution
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 28, 2015 10:46am |
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| Author | Sibusiso Tshabalala |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 03:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Last weekend, citizens in Congo-Brazzaville voted in a referendum to decide on whether the incumbent president, Denis Sassou Nguesso (pictured above), should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term at the next election in July 2016.
Local reports said that the referendum had a 72% turnout, with more than 92% of voters approving a the change in the constitution to allow Sassou Nguesso to run for another seven-year term.
But Pascal Tsaty Mabiala, secretary for an opposition party, the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy, is not convinced. Speaking to Reuters, Mabiala dubbed the result “a fantasy.”
Given reports of low voter turnout on the day of the referendum, Mabiala called for the “discredited” vote to be annulled.
“Either they annul it or else [Sassou Nguesso] will impose a dictatorship and the Congolese will not accept it,” Mabiala told Reuters. |
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