The commission reviewing the creation of the Chamber has almost finished the work entrusted to it. After adoption by the Council of Ministers, the documents will be sent to the National Assembly before the convening of the Electoral College.
Since the end of August 2016, the Chamber of Mines of Mali (CMM) is on the deadlock. On February 26, 2016 the term of office of the President of the Chamber, Abdoulaye Pona, ended, but the ministry of mines, the supervisory authority, had extended it for six months because it had not convened the Electoral College, having been caught short by the delay. The decree and order of the ministry, which allowed for the extension of the mandate and also provided for a transitional college were attacked by Mr. Pona before the Supreme Court which cancelled them at the beginning of August 2016. “They were on overhang with the law related to the creation with the Chamber” the Ministry of Mines recognizes, where a commission has been working for 9 months on the revision of the laws, decree and order that have not been able to resolve the disturbances that have occurred in the operation of the Chamber.
Radical changes
“The Review Board has almost finished. The documents will soon be adopted in the Council of Ministers before passing before the parliamentarians”, a source close to the ministry of Mines who requested anonymity told Sahelien.com. The Ministry has promised radical changes, which will make it possible to face the situation of impossibility of convening the Electoral College, notably through the extension, the establishment of the transitional college.
“These aspects were not foreseen. The texts have experienced problems”, explains our source. Another point to review will concern the supervision of the Ministry of Mines on the Chamber. Then, the Electoral College will be convened to elect a new president to head the Chamber.
In the Chamber, “there is no evolution”, says Belco Tamboura, in charge of public relations. Abdoulaye Pona, whose election was contested in 2011, remains in place. The Collective of Mining Professionals, composed mainly of those who had contested the election of Pona, had called for the establishment of an “interim system”. The deadlock situation, said a source close to Pona, had caused a disagreement between the president of the Chamber and Boubou Cissé, then minister of mines and principal craftsman of decrees and orders by the Supreme Court. The ball is still in the camp of the State.
Boubacar Sangaré