{"id":4937,"date":"2017-08-17T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2017-08-18T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:45:30","slug":"niger-the-opposition-takes-a-stance-after-the-extension-of-the-mandates-of-municipal-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/niger-the-opposition-takes-a-stance-after-the-extension-of-the-mandates-of-municipal-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: the opposition takes a stance after the extension of the mandates of municipal councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a press release issued on Wednesday August 16, the political opposition gathered under the denomination of the Front for the Restoration of Democracy and Defense of the Republic (FRDDR) came openly after the President of the Republic Issoufou Mahamadou.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FRDDR estimates that \u201cthe anti-democratic and anti-national strategy of Issoufou Mahamadou tending to draw the mandates of the decentralized entities in length is only political and legal tinkering which led him to perjury for refusing to obey ruling n<sup>o<\/sup> 002 \/ CC \/ ME of March 7, 2017 of the Constitutional Court ordering the holding of the partial legislative election of the ordinary constituency of Maradi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Still according to the political opposition, \u201cPresident Issoufou Mahamadou, instead of waiting for the fate of the institutions of the Republic for his perjury, is moving at a higher speed by choosing in an outrageously discriminatory manner and in violation of the provisions of Order n\u00b0 2010-54 of September 17, 2010, establishing the General Code of Territorial Communities of the Republic of Niger, in particular Article 177 thereof, to dissolve all the councils of the Niamey region alone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with such behavior, the opposition is indignant at \u201cthe dissolution of the councils of district and city of the Niamey region and rejects this decision which flouts the elementary principles of the expression of the popular will and which puts in danger the cohesion of our people\u201d. It demands however, \u201cthe holding of all local elections throughout the national territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by Sahelien.com, Mr. Aboubacar Mohamed, an indisputable support of the party of President Issoufou, affirms that \u201cthe political opposition of the Niger is simply delirious. It finally does not know what to say and what to do. We grant them these groaning\u201d.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Ibrahim Manzo Diallo<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release issued on Wednesday August 16, the political opposition gathered under the denomination of the Front for the Restoration of Democracy and Defense of the Republic (FRDDR) came openly after the President of the Republic Issoufou Mahamadou. The FRDDR estimates that \u201cthe anti-democratic and anti-national strategy of Issoufou Mahamadou tending to draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-niger","8":"category-politique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}