Comoros President Azali Assoumani has put his son, Nour El Fath, in charge of coordinating government affairs as he reshuffled his cabinet following a tense January election that his opponents alleged was tainted by voter fraud.<\/p>\n
One person was killed and at least 25 injured in violent protests in the country, a group of three islands off the coast of Mozambique, after the election body declared Assoumani re-elected to his fourth five-year term.<\/p>\n
Political analysts, opposition leaders and local media said Assoumani appeared to be preparing El Fath, a 40-year-old with a background in finance and who has worked as senior economic adviser to the president since 2019, to replace him.<\/p>\n
Assoumani announced his cabinet late on Monday. He made Ibrahim Mohamed Abdou Razakou finance minister, Said Omar Houmadi justice minister, and reappointed Youssoufa Mohamed Ali as defence minister.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Jaffar Abbas, the head of the coalition of opposition parties, said it was clear Assoumani was “trying to build a dynasty”.<\/p>\n
“(Assoumani) speaks of renewal, but let’s not forget that before his son, it was his nephew who occupied the same position of secretary general of the government,” he said.<\/p>\n
Comoros, with a population of about 800,000, has experienced around 20 coups or attempted coups since winning independence from France in 1975 and is a major source of irregular migration to the nearby French island of Mayotte.<\/p>\n
Constitutional reforms in 2018 extended a requirement that the presidency rotate among the three main islands of Comoros from every five years to 10.<\/p>\n
El Fath would therefore not be eligible to replace his father at the end of the presidential term in 2029 unless the constitution were changed again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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