Accusation of a coup plan as Mauritania's election nears
Mauritania, Politics, 11/6/2003

The director of the elections campaign for the President of Mauritania said that he found a document that proves that Muhammad Khouna Weld Hedallah, the candidate of the opposition to the Presidential elections was planning to take over government by force if he does not win the elections, and this will be in support of national and Islamist groups.

News reports in Nouackchott said that the security forces detained another son for Muhammad Khouna Weld Hedallah and expelled him to Bumdid town to the eastern part of the country and the authorities also detained on Tuesday his nephew Sayed Ahmad Hedallah on charge of violating general security and elections which will begin after two days.

For his part, the director of the Weld Hedallah campaign denied these accusations saying that Mauritanian president is planning to falsify the results of the elections, amid accusations from the opposition to him of using the government departments in his elections campaign.

Meantime, the row continued between President of Mauritania Mu'aweya Wild Taye' and the candidates of the opposition on the transparency of the elections and on guaranteeing the integrity of the identity cards used in the voting.

A spokesman for Weld Hedallah said that three among the most prominent candidates organized yesterday a joint march in solidarity with him. He added that this march comes to express rejection of the means pursued by the authority to violate the atmospheres of the elections and to halt the march of the change.

The three opposition candidates are the former President Weld Hedallah, the candidate of the democratic forces coalition Ahmad Weld Dada and the candidate for the progressive alliance party Masoud Weld Balkheir.

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