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Mauritanian Junta Refuses To Cede Power Plugging Nation Into Political Crisis
18 June 2009
Nouakchott - A month before planned presidential polls Mauritania has hit another political stalemate as the junta refuses to symbolically cede power to a transitional government, political and diplomatic sources said on Thursday. The country's ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was forced out of power by a military junta last August, is insisting that in order for him to officially step down the junta's ruling council should dissolve, and cede power to a joint transitional government. Earlier this month all Mauritanian parties signed an agreement designed to end the political crisis in the country following the military coup.
Under the agreement a transitional government would be formed including members of the junta and anti-coup parties. Ould Cheikh Abdallahi would step down voluntarily. "Late on Wednesday night the camp of General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (who led the coup) ... told a meeting of the parties that dissolving the ruling council was a red line that would not be passed," an opposition official, who asked not to be named, said. "The (ousted) president has agreed in principle to sign the order forming a (transitional) government but continues to link his own resignation to the dissolution of this anti-constitutional military structure," the source added. In the deal signed to end the crisis the fate of the junta's ruling council was not mentioned. According to a diplomat questioned by AFP, there was some movement with negotiators suggesting several ways out of the stalemate but all the parties had not yet given their consent to the solutions proposed. Observers are concerned that even if they come to an agreement soon the standoff could affect preparations for the election. The parties have already concluded most of the negotiations about how the posts in the transitional government should be divided, with the anti-coup parties getting the key interior and defence portfolios, sources said. - Sapa-AFP
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