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ECONEC, CENI meet ahead of Mali presidential election
The ECONEC, CENI meeting comes a week to the Mali presidential election on Sunday.
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Prof Yakubu also doubles as the President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) governing board.
His delegation which includes some senior INEC officials, was received by CENI President, Amadou Bah and Barrister Moctar Mariko, the President of Mali Human Rights Association.
Both sides discussed preparations for Sunday’s poll and the strengthening of cooperation between ECONEC and CENI, in line with the Network’s mandate on assistance, information and experience sharing, peer review and advocacy for support of election management bodies, to deepen electoral integrity and consolidation of democratic governance in the region.
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President Bah thanked the ECONEC chief for the solidarity visit.
During a separate meeting at the ECOWAS Situation Room, Prof Yakubu and Ouedraogo underscored the need for synergy and collaboration among international observation missions and development partners to accompany Malians on the path to stability, democracy and good governance.
The 171-member ECOWAS observation mission to Mali, led by Ouedraogo, a former Burkina Faso Prime Minister and immediate past president of the ECOWAS Commission, also includes ECONEC Secretariat Staff, with the ECONEC Permanent Secretary, Francis Oke, Head of the ECOWAS Electoral Assistance Division, also serving as member of the ECOWAS Technical Team supporting the Mission, whose members are deployed in parts of Mali’s eight administrative regions.
About eight million registered voters from Mali’s estimated 18 million national population will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president from a total of 24 candidates including a female contestant and sitting president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 73, who is seeking a second five-year mandate.
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