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So, basically what's he's saying is that the situation is too volatile for democracy, that they want to do certain reforms that require order. The concept of a provisional transitional dictatorship to stabilize things is not an aberration per se, in the context of a chaotic situation. In theory it could be reasonable.
So far so good. One can debate his sincerity, can have different assessments of whether he's right or not. That's legitimate political debate.
But the other things he said, equating democracy as such with crimes, that's extremely alarming. The problem is that he's making an ideology out of a necessity. He's not saying "the country is not ready, we need to first stabilize and then democratize". He's saying that democracy isn't even an horizon. And even worse he's not even qualifying what kind of democracy he's rejecting, he's rejecting democracy as such. Really Existing Socialist countries at least maintain that they are higher forms of democracy. He's done away with the concept altogether.
I think the exact opposite. Saying that "democracy isn't for us" banishes any kind of democracy that could happen in the country. It even bans the possibility that there is a right way of democracy for the country.
The current crimes linked to western democracy are just connected to the current state of democracy. That Burkina Faso shouldn't buy into a democracy that kills, that doesn't build hospitals, and so on. That doesn't mean the concept of democracy cannot change for implementation on the country for the future.
Anyway, exact opposite.
Aren't we saying the same thing?