Parliamentary election in Mali 2020

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In the National Assembly building

The first round of the parliamentary elections in Mali 2020 took place on March 29. The second round took place on April 19th. The 147 members of the National Assembly in Mali are elected . The electoral commission Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) was responsible for running the election. The election took place despite terrorist violence and the COVID-19 pandemic .

Starting position

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (2013)
Soumaila Cissé (2013)

The last parliamentary election took place on November 25 and December 15, 2013. The election should have been held in 2018, but was postponed several times due to the Islamist violence in north and central Mali. In March 2020 there were around 218,000 internally displaced persons in the country.

In 2013, the Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM), the party of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta , won 66 seats. The Alliance pour la Démocratie en Mali - Parti Pan-Africain pour la Liberté, la Solidarité et la Justice (ADEMA-PASJ) under Tiémoko Sangaré received 44 seats, the Union pour la République et la Démocratie (URD) ​​under Soumaila Cissé 17 seats. The Forces Alternatives pour la Renouveau et l'Emergence (FARE) provided six members, the Solidarité africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance (SADI) five, the Parti pour la Renaissance Nationale (PARENA) three and the Parti pour le Développement Economique et la Solidarité (PDES) two. Seven independents were also elected.

Electoral process

The 147 members of the National Assembly are elected by majority vote in 125 constituencies . Receives no candidate in the first ballot, the absolute majority of votes, is a runoff of the two candidates with the most votes take place. In constituencies with several seats, these are assigned by block voting (scrutin majoritaire plurinormal) , i. H. the parry with the most votes receives all seats in the constituency.

There were over 22,000 polling stations. Around 7.7 million Malians were registered for the election.

Done in the run-up to the election

A few days before the first ballot, the opposition politician Soumaila Cissé was kidnapped. Since then, it has been in the hands of al-Qaeda rebels near Saraféré . There was a growing number of residents suffering from COVID-19 at the time of the election . Nevertheless, both ballots were held.

First round results

In 17 constituencies, candidates received an absolute majority in the first ballot. Soumaila Cissé was one of them. The turnout was just under 36%, around 4.5% of the votes were invalid. The following seats were awarded in the first ballot:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katrin Gänsler: Mali elects a new parliament despite the corona crisis. dw.com on March 28, 2020, accessed on April 19, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Second round of parliamentary elections in Mali takes place despite Corona. epd.de from April 17, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020
  3. ^ Results of the first ballot. courconstitutionelle.ml (French), accessed April 19, 2020