{"id":5004,"date":"2017-09-10T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T19:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:30:30","slug":"burkina-faso-alassane-balla-sakande-elected-to-the-national-assemblys-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/burkina-faso-alassane-balla-sakande-elected-to-the-national-assemblys-perch\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso : Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9 elected to the National Assembly&#8217;s Perch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Burkina Faso, Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9 was elected President of the National Assembly on September 8. He replaces Salif Diallo, who died in Paris on August 19. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9, 48, was formerly a member of parliament for Kadiogo Province and chairman of the parliamentary group Movement of the People for Progress (MPP). This former bank executive went through the union movements at the University and followed in 2014 those who resigned from the CDP (the Blaise Compaore party, editor&#8217;s note) to create the MPP.<\/p>\n<p>Only candidate in the running, he is elected in replacement of Salif Diallo, who died on August 19, by 104 votes in \u00ab favor \u00bb, 2 \u00ab against \u00bb, 19 \u00ab abstentions \u00bb and 2 in \u00ab absentia \u00bb out of 127 voters. In Burkina Faso, <em>\u00ab in the event of a vacancy in the Presidency of the National Assembly, pursuant to Articles 91, 92 or 93 of the Constitution, the National Assembly shall elect a new President within fifteen days of the vacancy if it is in session \u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The opposition decided not to nominate a candidate. \u00ab We felt it was a matter of continuing a mandate that was abruptly shortened. From that point on we felt it was normal that we could allow the majority to choose from amongst them the person who could continue the work of the winner against our candidate 20 months ago \u00bb, Juliette Bonkoungou, member of parliament of the CDP.<\/p>\n<p>Close to President Kabor\u00e9 and his late predecessor, Salif Diallo, the term of Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9 runs until the end of the legislature, in 2020.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Sahelien.com<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Burkina Faso, Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9 was elected President of the National Assembly on September 8. He replaces Salif Diallo, who died in Paris on August 19. Alassane Balla Sakand\u00e9, 48, was formerly a member of parliament for Kadiogo Province and chairman of the parliamentary group Movement of the People for Progress (MPP). This former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-burkina","8":"category-politique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","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=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}