Part 3: Rising Africa Section 41 General Election of Members of Parliament (Part II)

The voter sentiment survey in Mali was secretly launched, and the number of registered party members was absolutely sure of the number of votes in hand, the number of votes that could be influenced, and then the number of votes of the opponent was analyzed. The Party for the Development of the Mali (PDP) mainly conducts surveys and mapping through two main channels: first, through telephone consultation and door-to-door consultation, to check the information in detail and confirm the number of people participating in the election; Second, for voters who do not have a basic grasp of the basic information, through door-to-door registration and verification, collect registration information and determine the number of people participating in the election, and after verification, fill in the "Registration Form for the Investigation and Mapping of the General Election of Members" and report it to the grassroots election office. The key contents of the survey include "the name and address of the voter and contact number", "the number of voters' household registration", and "the number of non-voters who have not registered".

Song Chutian has not appeared at the rally to solicit votes in the past few days, not because he is low-key and deliberate, but because his influence is enough, as the formal Minister of Social Work of the Mali Development Party, in fact, he is the top core leader of the Mali Development Party, and what he is doing now is to visit Prime Minister Demba Sangara.

"A country that has been shrouded in violence such as bombings and attacks for many years needs someone as knowledgeable and caring as the Prime Minister to continue working for this country." Song Chutian said in a wheelchair.

Prime Minister Demba Sangara felt the friendliness brought by Song Chutian, "Peace and development in Mali is the ultimate goal, I just hope that the people can contribute my strength to the development and happiness of the people of Mali. "The question was very direct and abrupt, but it also showed how much I cared.

"The academics only had four seats in parliament last time, and the pressure on the prime minister this time is not very great, and we in the Malian Development Party are willing to publicize it in some rural areas where the academics are not willing to go, and learned people should be respected as they deserve." Song Chutian looked directly into Prime Minister Dengba's eyes.

Don't worry about your party's votes. Concerned about the election of other parties, Prime Minister Dengba's thoughts suddenly became complicated.

Song Chutian said with a smile, "The Communist Party only won 11 seats in the last parliamentary election, although it formed an opposition alliance with the second largest party, the Democratic Party, but it will not give up, and this parliamentary election will not be subservient to the people, and it will definitely come back." However, we think that about 10 seats of the Communist Party will be enough, and it is not good to be too long, so it is better to maintain the original appearance. ”

"What do you mean?" Prime Minister Demba's heart is tumbling like boiling water, can an emerging party like the Mali Development Party influence Mali's parliamentary elections?

Song Chutian said softly. "Radi's handling is not in the interests of the people at large, and it is also a blow to those servicemen who do not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the country."

Radi has been imprisoned by the security services after a military coup in Mali early last year, which led directly to the end of former President Sifa's regime, but has been accused of murder and assassination and for being an accomplice to the murder and assassination. Radi is not a member of Mali's main political party, but he still has some influence in the Malian military, and it is the opposition party led by the Communist Party that now leads Radi's legal sanctions.

"Radi's handling was approved by the president. It was not a wise decision to oppose the agreement reached by the Justice Party and the Communist Party at this sensitive time, and even the support of the military was limited. "Prime Minister Demba believes that the Mali Development Party has the support of the military, if not all, but at least the support of particularly hard-line and powerful factions.

Song Chutian did not correct his thoughts. "Not now, but in the second round of the election, the Communist Party itself will find an excuse to exonerate Radi, and the black face and red face can't let them sing alone. We're not too big or too small in Mali, aren't we? ”

If he has a vision for the second phase of the election, I don't mind working with such a strategically minded party, Prime Minister Demba. "If that happens, I don't really want to be this good old man." Putting aside the topic of the election, Prime Minister Demba then talked to Song Chutian about the situation in Mali, and also talked about the withdrawal of the Chadian government from Mali's peacekeeping forces, and also discussed the situation in northern Mali before ending the meeting.

The National Assembly of Mali is the supreme body of power and has a unicameral system, with universal suffrage for a five-year term and parliamentary elections conducted by a two-round majority election. Mali will hold the first round of voting in the parliamentary election on the 28th, and voters will elect 151 deputies from 1,057 candidates. According to the plan, voting will start at 8 o'clock local time on the 28th and end at 6 p.m. It is understood that more than 9.5 million voters will participate in the ballot, 1,057 candidates representing political parties, coalitions of political parties and independent candidates will run in 60 constituencies across the country, more than 20,000 polling stations to vote, and the second round of voting in this parliamentary election is scheduled to be held on October 25.

More than 1,000 international observers from the European Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), as well as some 5,000 domestic observers from Mali, are monitoring the parliamentary elections.

Due to the military coup d'état in Mali before the general election at the beginning of last year, the capital suffered a large-scale smashing and looting, the security of the capital region in this election has attracted much attention, and the Malian security department said before the parliamentary election that it will send 5,000 security forces to maintain order.

Early in the morning of the 28th, Lei Dong came to a polling station in Bamako, the capital of Mali, where almost all polling stations were set up in school classrooms, and voters lined up here early to wait for their votes, in an orderly manner. Inside the polling station, staff are busy making preparations. Voters were very conscious of showing their ID cards to the staff, and people were talking and laughing to receive their ballots, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Divibins, who had just finished voting, told Song Chutian that he voted for the candidate of the Mali Development Party for parliament, and no matter who becomes a parliamentarian in the future, he hopes that he can bring changes to Mali and contribute to Mali's economic development and employment, and do not feel sorry for the first vote in his life.

The Regard brothers also came forward to say something, and gave the leopard a glare and retracted his eyes, Song Chutian's mood was a little excited today, "So many Malian voters actively participate in the vote, and it is not in vain that we have worked hard behind the scenes for so long, and now the brakes of the Mali car are under our feet, and the steering wheel will be given away according to Lei Shao's meaning in a few days." ”

In the evening, the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Malian Parliamentary Election Observation Mission Kuhl said at a press conference held in Bamako, the capital of Mali, that the first round of voting in the Malian general election went smoothly, Malian voters actively participated, and there was no fraud in the first round of voting held on the 28th. He said that there were fears that the civil war would raise concerns about cheating, but there was no fraud in the first round of voting, and Kuhl praised the active participation of Malian voters at a press conference, calling on the Malian people to wait calmly for the official announcement of the results of the vote.

Only 25 candidates were elected in the first round of parliamentary elections, and the remaining 126 seats will be determined in the second round of elections, while the previously unknown new party of the Malian Development Party has six candidates who have been elected to the Malian parliament. The dark horse of Malian politics led by the newly released parliamentarian Song Chutian was jointly divided by the Mali Development Party. The second round of elections to determine the remaining 126 new Members will be held on 25 October

Preparations for the second round of parliamentary elections are now the focus of Mali's political parties, and high-level visits are frequent, and today Song Chutian appeared at President Madou Abdul's villa on the outskirts of the capital, Bamako.

Song Chutian smiled and accepted President Madur Abdul's congratulations and said, "Mr. President, I don't know if you are interested in visiting the newly built winery at the end of the month." ”

"At the end of the month, it's very free, and now young people drink a lot, and I'm old, and I'm afraid I won't be able to resist the words of the two of us." Among the 25 successful candidates in the first round of parliamentary elections, only 3 members of the Malian Justice Party and 5 members of the Democratic Party and 8 members of the Communist Party were elected to the parliament.

"If Mr. President agrees with the opinion of the Communist Party to grant an amnesty to Radi, then our meeting at the end of the month will not be possible, and if Mr. President refuses their demand, then the ballot of our Progressive Party will be filled with candidates from the Justice Party, because we only have a dozen party members who are qualified to serve as members of Congress, and the rest have yet to be cultivated." Song Chutian said casually, everything was under his control.

The Malian military is now under the joint pressure of the non-Malian peacekeeping forces and the French army, and has not made a public statement on Radi's handling of the matter, but there must be a feeling of sadness, after all, the slogan of Radi's coup d'état at that time was for the welfare of the military, and the power was returned to the democratically elected government, and there was no persecution of the Malian elites, and the agreement reached between the Justice Party and the Communist Progressive Party to arrest first and then amnesty was not approved by everyone even in their respective parties, and many people secretly expressed sympathy for Radi. (To be continued......)