Brussels 29.05.2021 The Malian Constitutional Court declared on Friday, May 28, Colonel Assimi Goïta head of state and President of the transition supposed to bring civilians back to power, indicates a court ruling, completing the second coup led by the officer and the military in nine months. The judgment stipulates that the vice-president of the transition, Colonel Goïta, “exercises the functions, attributes and prerogatives of president of the transition to lead the transition process to its end”, and that he will carry “the title of president of the transition, head of state ”.

The judgment stipulates that the vice-president of the transition, Colonel Goïta, “exercises the functions, attributes and prerogatives of president of the transition to lead the transition process to its conclusion”, and that he will carry “the title of president of the transition, head of state ”.
The Constitutional Court comes to this after noting the “vacancy of the presidency” following the resignation of the one who was until then the president of the transition, Bah Ndaw.
“Due to the vacancy of the presidency of the transition, it should be said that the vice-president of the transition assumes the prerogatives, attributes and functions of president of the transition, head of state”, she writes. .

Colonel Goïta, a strong man in Mali since the coup d’état he led on August 18, 2020 with a group of officers, had President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane arrested on Monday, May 24, civil guarantors for the transition opened after the putsch.

Assimi Goïta announced on Tuesday, May 25, that they had dismissed them from their positions. Their dismissal was then presented as a resignation, without it being known whether it was voluntary.