If there was suspence, it didn’t final for lengthy. Just a few hours after the nationwide discussion board kicked off in Burkina Faso Friday, coup chief Captain traoré was unanimously named president of the transition.
He was named by some 300 individuals representing political events, civil society, non secular teams and the safety forces who gathered in Ouagadougou to chart the transition.
The representatives additionally adopted Article 4 of the constitution stressing that “the time period of the president of the transition will finish” as soon as the chief elected after the 2024 presidential race might be sworn in.
This text provides that “the president of the transition will not be eligible for the presidential, legislative and municipal elections that might be organised to finish the transition”.
He’d served as head of the junta since September 30 when he ousted Colonel Damiba.
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