The national conference on transition in Burkina Faso has set a transition period of three years.
At the end of the first day of the popular consultation the 350 personalities from different segments of society validated a three-year transition.
The charter specifies that neither the president, nor the Prime Minister, nor the National Assembly Speaker will be able to take part in the general elections that will end the transition period.
A government of up to 25 ministers will be established and the legislative body will have 71 MPs.
The transitional charter was the subject of sometimes tense debates, but was finally adopted by consensus by the participants, according to former Burkina Faso Prime Minister Tertius Zongo.
In its report to Burkina Faso’s head of state Paul Henri Damiba on Wednesday, the technical commission set up by the junta after it seized power proposed a 30-month transition period and the establishment of a small government and legislature.
The ‘Mouvement patriotique pour la sauvegarde et la restauration’ (MPSR), which has presided over the country since the seizure of power, argued that the country must reach a “certain level of strength” before going to elections.
After Mali and Guinea, Burkina Faso is in the hands of a military junta, the eighth coup in the history of the landlocked West African country, which has been plagued by jihadism since 2013.
Colonel Damiba, the new strongman of Ouagadougou, will be sworn-in as president of Burkina Faso on March 2, 2022.
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