Coordination of movements of Azawad (CMA) denounced Tuesday, October 18, an "irregularity" in the government decree on the interim authorities. The Malian government is accused of having increased "unilaterally" its members quota within the interim authorities.
The adoption on October 14 of decrees appointing members of the interim authorities in the regions of northern Mali is "a major advance" in the implementation of the peace agreement, said the movement Coordination of Azawad (CMA). The former rebels regretted on Tuesday 18 October, the fact that government had introduced in a "unilateral" to increase its quota of members in the transitional institutions.
According to the CMA, the decree of appointment of members of interim authorities do not comply with the Agreement signed June 19, 2016 between the government, the CMA and the Platform. This determines the number of members to sit in the transitional authorities in the regions, districts and boroughs of Timbuktu, Gao, Kidal, Menaka and Taoudenit.
The said Agreement provides, for example, that "at the local authority area, the Interim Authority includes as many members as the Regional Council that it replaces." But the decree adopted by the government has a surplus of one member for the region of Timbuktu and Kidal as two Menaka, according to CMA.
The state has reneged, protest the three movements that make up the CMA. "The decree is in cantilever with the Agreement. He ignored the Entente distribution key, "said Sidi Brahim Ould Sidatt, the representative of the CMA within the Agreement Monitoring Committee (CSA).
The movements of the CMA also invite the government "to reverse the order and remove the surplus."
They denounce the attitude of the Malian authorities. "We do not agree that a unilateral state increases advisors as this is not provided for in the Agreement," added Ould Sidi Brahim Sidatt.
The CMA will use all peaceful complaint options to resolve this "irregularity", assure its leaders. She plans to enter international mediation and has already arrested the co-chairs of the CSA subcommittee for political and institutional issues on the subject.
Still, optimism is still required within the CMA who hopes to find common ground with the government as whenever a dispute arose between the two parties.
