Africa-Press – Cape verde. A delegation from the National Transitional Council (CNT) of Guinea-Conakry wants to learn about Cape Verde’s best democratic practices when preparing a new Constitution for the country, the head of the delegation said this Monday in Praia.
“ Different countries will help us learn about best practices ”, said Fatima Camara, head of the delegation, detailing that the CNT has already visited Rwanda and identified Cape Verde as an “effective democratic model in Africa ”.
“Today, we are more than satisfied with the first meeting ”, held at the National Assembly, said the person responsible, highlighting the “ excellent relations ” between the parliaments of the two countries.
“ We have great relations at the parliament level and we have a common history and this is a way of strengthening these ties” , he said, alluding to the fight for independence.
“The transition period is an opportunity to strengthen Guinean institutions and we will have a Constitution emanating from the people ”, he added.
The CNT is made up of 81 members from political parties, civil society groups, unions, employers and security forces, among others.
This is the body that replaced parliament after the 2021 coup d’état.
Guinea-Conakry is one of four countries sanctioned in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS, of which Cape Verde is part) due to coups d’état, in a group that includes Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
The return to constitutional order is theoretically expected in 2024 in Mali and Burkina Faso, and in 2025 in Guinea-Conakry.
The military junta led by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya took power on September 5, 2021, when the Army’s Special Forces Group overthrew the then president, Alpha Condé, who had governed since 2010, after he opted for a controversial third term in October 2020, not permitted by the Guinean Constitution.
Mamadi Doumbouya argued that the coup sought to create the conditions for a rule of law..
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