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Ibrahim Boubacar Keitas has been the President of Mali since 2013. Archive photograph.
Mali residents will go to a second round of elections to appoint members to the country’s parliament, the National Assembly.
The election would have been held in late 2018, but has been postponed multiple times due to security concerns. It is now taking place despite the spread of the coronavirus and the protracted bloody conflict in the country that has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands to flee.
The first round of the elections on March 29 was plagued by jihadist attacks and threats, and opposition leader Soumaila Cissé was kidnapped. At that time, electoral participation in the country was 35.6 percent, but in the capital, Bamako, it was significantly lower, at 12.9 percent.
This year’s election is the first parliamentary election since 2013, when President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s Party Collection for Mali won the presidential election. He said before today’s election that all precautions for health and safety are taken.
Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, has reported 13 deaths in sets of corona viruses and more than 200 cases of disease.
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