Thirty-six people, including four former prime ministers and two women have applied for the first round of the Malian presidential election on July 28, said on Saturday, June 29 at the Constitutional Court must validate files.
"We have received 36 application files to the Malian presidency. Among the candidates, there are two women," the former minister Sidibé Aminata Diallo and Aïdara Aïssata Cissé, a member of Bourem town in northern Mali, said a member the Constitutional Court.
According to information gathered from the political staffs, former Prime Minister Sheikh Modibo Diarra, Modibo Sidibé, Sumana Sacko and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, among the candidates. Other "heavyweights" of Malian political class are also candidates.
Among them, Soumaila Cisse, former Malian Minister and former President of the Commission of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) and Dramane Dembele, candidate of Adema, the main political party in Mali.
Candidates also include former foreign minister, Tiébilé Drame, who recently represented the Malian government in discussions with Tuareg rebels in Ouagadougou for the holding of the presidential election in Kidal town in north-eastern Mali occupied by Tuareg rebels of the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) where the Malian army is still not present.
Applications must be validated by the Constitutional Court before the start of the campaign for the presidential election scheduled for 7 July, according to a source close to the court. The election scheduled on July 28 to be held after several months in 2012 occupation of northern Mali by armed Islamist groups have been driven by an international coalition led by France.
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