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Viewing cable 06BAMAKO421, ELECTORAL LOSSES AND LOW TURNOUT TRIGGER ANGRY

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BAMAKO421 2006-04-07 13:27 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bamako
VZCZCXRO5951
RR RUEHPA
DE RUEHBP #0421 0971327
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 071327Z APR 06
FM AMEMBASSY BAMAKO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5231
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHPO/AMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO 0006
RUEHLC/AMEMBASSY LIBREVILLE 0015
UNCLAS BAMAKO 000421 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF, DRL, INR 
 
PARAMARIBO FOR DCM MARY BETH LEONARD 
LIBREVILLE FOR POLOFF GLENN FEDZER 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM PINR ECON ML
SUBJECT:  ELECTORAL LOSSES AND LOW TURNOUT TRIGGER ANGRY 
SPEECH BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT 
 
REF: BAMAKO 0401 (NOTAL) 
 
1.  (U) Summary.  One week after a poor showing by the Rally 
for Mali (RPM) in legislative by-elections, RPM leader and 
National Assembly President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK) 
opened the April session of the National Assembly with an 
extremely critical speech decrying the state of Malian 
democracy.  Meanwhile, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali 
(ADEMA) party and the Citizen Movement of President Amadou 
Toumani Toure (ATT) consolidated their position just days 
before the April 9 run-off for the National Assembly seat in 
Bamako's fifth district.  End Summary. 
 
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IBK: MALI NO LONGER A DEMOCRATIC "SUCCESS STORY" 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
2.  (U) On April 3, IBK opened the National Assembly's 
spring session with a speech questioning Mali's status as a 
democratic "success story".  With Prime Minister Issoufi 
Maiga looking on, IBK argued that voter disinterest during 
last week's legislative by-elections posed a threat to 
Mali's national unity.  "When choices are made by such a 
pathetic percentage of the electorate," stated IBK, "it is 
difficult to talk about democratic expression...Can we 
continue to pretend that we are the champions of democracy 
in sub-Saharan Africa when our own system of representation 
is so clearly suspect and shaken to its core?" 
 
3.  (U) Referring to the March 26 Democracy Day celebrations 
that occurred on the same day as the by-elections, IBK 
questioned the sincerity of those honoring the "martyrs" of 
the 1991 popular uprising that ousted former dictator Moussa 
Traore.  "How many of the tributes," asked IBK, "were 
sincere and in step with the daily behavior of their 
authors?" 
 
4. (SBU) Comment: IBK was clearly responding to what 
political observers regard as a serious setback for the RPM 
following the legislative by-elections in Mopti and Bamako. 
While the record low 7% voter participation rate in Bamako 
caught all sides of the political spectrum by surprise, the 
turnout rate during one off-year by-election is not a 
particularly reliable indicator of the state of Malian 
democracy.  The rather respectable turnout of 38% during the 
same elections in Mopti, moreover, render IBK's warnings 
about threats to Malian national unity somewhat hollow. 
IBK's reference to insincere Democracy Day tributes was 
likely directed at Prime Minister Maiga (see Ref A) and 
perhaps ATT himself.  End comment. 
 
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ATT'S CITIZEN MOVEMENT WEIGHS IN 
-------------------------------- 
 
5.  (U) In Bamako's fifth district, ADEMA reinforced its 
position just days before the April 9 legislative run-off by 
adding another party to its 22 member coalition.  During a 
joint press conference with the president of ATT's Citizen 
Movement association, ADEMA announced that it has secured 
the endorsement of the third place candidate who received 
17% of the vote during the first round. 
 
6.  (U) The battle between ADEMA and the Union for Republic 
and Democracy (URD) in Bamako is striking given the recent 
URD-ADEMA alliance in Mopti.  According to the president of 
ATT's Citizen Movement, Djibril Tangara, the apparent 
contradiction is easily explained:  the URD opposed the RPM 
in Mopti but joined with the RPM in Bamako.  "I am not," 
stated Tangara on behalf of the Citizen Movement, "ready to 
help someone who is in the parliamentary opposition.  Those 
who speak against the government are negative.  Since the 
RPM criticizes the government, the RPM is negative... As a 
result, the Citizen Movement cannot support the URD in the 
fifth district because the URD is allied with the RPM.  In 
Mopti, where the URD is positive, it has the support of both 
ADEMA and our Movement." 
 
McCulley