Political parties dissolved and the transition made open-ended

What happened

A decree of 7 May 2025 suspended the activities of all political parties in Mali; a second, on 13 May, dissolved close to 300 of them and banned their meetings and activities under threat of prosecution. On 10 July the transition president enacted a revised transition charter granting himself a five-year mandate, renewable, without an election, with the transition to continue until the country is declared pacified. A national consultation process had recommended suspending election planning on the same condition.

This is the module's largest political development of 2025 and the point at which the transition stopped being a timetable that kept slipping and became an arrangement with no end condition anyone outside the government can verify. Every subsequent legitimacy question in this module — what the government is fighting to preserve, what a negotiated outcome could even look like, why security failure translates so directly into political risk — runs through it. The dates matter because the module previously placed this process a year too early.

Confidence: High