Election talks begin in Mauritania
2008-12-28
Planning for Mauritania’s first post-coup elections began on Saturday (December 27th) at a meeting attended by Mauritanian legislators and politicians, religious leaders, civil society representatives and international diplomats, local and international press reported. The talks, which will continue through January 5th, aim at working out a time-table for a new presidential election, proposing constitutional amendments and determining the role of the military in the political process, AFP reported. The anti-coup National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) and ousted President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi are boycotting the talks.
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