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Burkina Faso forms team to rewrite new Constitution

Xinhua, June 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Burkina Faso government has formed a constitutional commission comprised of 92 people who include politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, trade unionists and civil society actors to rewrite a new Constitution.

A cabinet statement issued on Thursday said the new Constitution will end the misrule witnessed during the 27-year reign by deposed president Blaise Compaore.

The constitutional commission will be charged with the responsibility of writing a constitution within the next 60 days, to usher in the "Fifth Republic."

During his campaigns, newly elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore promised to change the Constitution to separate powers and end a situation where the president is in charge of every institution in the country.

Many political analysts have observed that the current Constitution that was adopted in June 1991, gives enormous powers to the president.

In October 2014, Compaore was forced to resign after he tried to amend the Constitution to run for a new term in office. Endit