Mauritanian party leader announces presidential bid
2009-04-12
The leader of Mauritania's Alliance for Justice and Democracy – Movement for Renovation (AJD-MR) Sarr Ibrahima Moctar announced Saturday (April 11th) that he will run in the presidential elections, scheduled for June 6th, AFP and local press reported. In the first democratic elections in the country in 2007, Moctar ranked fourth with 7.95% of the vote and later on supported the August 6th coup, which ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi. Moctar is quoted as saying that he believes that all the conditions are in place for holding free elections and that junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had assured him that the polls would be "transparent and credible."
Last week the junta leader announced plans to step down before April 22nd in order to run in the elections and declared that there will be no delay to the polls.
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