François Holland’s speech arouses spite of CPDM activists

During the 15th Summit of la Francophonie which took place last weekend in Dakar, Senegal, François Holland, French president made an apology for the action taken by the Burkinabé people to oppose the proposed amendment of the constitution of their country thus deposing president Blaise Compaoré.

"What the people of Burkina Faso did must make those who want to stay as the head of their country by violating the constitutional order rethink," said the French president. He reiterated the support of his country to any initiative in this direction.

This speech which many think was addressed to the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya who has been in power for more than 32 years, was not well received by the militants of the CPDM party. "It is unfortunate that the current president of France encourage people to take to the streets for political changes. Now he goes against what president François Mitterrand had regretted and thus stating that the French society should not evolve only by fracture, meaning that each time you need to kill people”, regretted Jean Ayissi Bessala, activist of the CPDM

"Indeed what he said does not concern Cameroon. He said that the people must defend their constitutions, the constitution of Cameroon does not prohibit a candidate, even if he is in power", he added.

However, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), on the other hand welcomed the position of the French president, who, according to Célestin Djamen, is consistent with the ambitions of the main opposition party. "It has always been the struggle of the SDF."

Power to the people for equal opportunities and I wonder even if Holland did not borrow the slogan of the SDF. You know that the Burkinabé people have exactly the same stigma as: amendment of the constitution in 2008 towards perpetuity in power.