Interior Ministry rejects all demands of the Elections Monitoring Committee

Progressive rejection of the demands of the National Elections Monitoring Committee, by the Interior Ministry, raised questions about the feasibility of this Committee, to the extent that some people said that its creation is a “false witness” on a prior fraud, wich indicators appeared on the horizon.

The Committee had raised a number of demands to the Interior Ministry, but Dahou Ould Kablia, did not respond, even with one demand, causing disagreement with four points, namely: the adoption of the one voting paper, providing extra explanations on the ratio of women’s representation in the lists, retrieving‭ ‬the collective registration ‭of members of the national ‭popular army out of the legal deadlines, and‭ finally ‭ ‬ refusing to put the picture of the head of a ‭party on the voting paper‭. ‬

The striking thing is that the Interior Ministry is the one which asked the committee of monitoring the elections to submit proposals that may be necessary to ensure the integrity and transparency of the date of 10 May, but it has yet to receive the proposals,then bring the resolutions that it ignored, in a situation that was described by some observers as an “irreverence and mockery of representatives of more than forty ‭ ​​‬ ‭ ‬political parties”.

The Interior Ministry’s position was condemned by members of the Committee, says Vice Chairman of the Committee, Abderrahman Akif, who is representing the National Movement for the Nature and Growth, adding; “Some officials applauded the president when he issued instructions to ensure the integrity and transparency of the elections, but they stand in the way of its application on the ground,” and accusing some parties ‭in the committee of ‭work in favor of the government, through their efforts to overthrow the table ‭on its chairman‭. ‬