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↑19年つづくタヤ政権
釈放されたMuhammad Ould Haidalla氏は、支持者に投票へいくよう呼びかけ。
Friday 07 November 2003, 2:09 Makka Time, 23:09 GMT
Police in Mauritania have released a leading opposition candidate after detaining him for a few hours on the eve of a tension-filled presidential election in the desert West African nation.
Former military ruler Muhammad Khouna Ould Haidalla, seen as the strongest challenger to incumbent President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, was briefly detained along with five campaign staff on suspicion of plotting to seize power.
"I'm calling on all of my supporters to go and vote tomorrow," Haidalla told Reuters by telephone after his release late on Thursday.
"This is part of the intimidation that the regime has started against us over the past few days," he said, adding he had refused to answer questions without a lawyer present.
Broad coalition
All those detained with Haidalla were also released.
Friday's poll has been sullied by allegations of foul play and comes just five months after renegade soldiers tried to depose Taya in a coup that was swiftly crushed.
Haidalla, who grabbed power in 1980 before being ousted four years later by Taya, has assembled a broad coalition of backers ranging from reformist liberals to Islamic hard liners.
Taya, who has been in office for 19 years, has ruled the former French colony with an iron fist and power has never changed hands through the ballot box since independence in 1960.
But he angered some Arabs at home after he performed a stark diplomatic about-turn - shifting from support for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to establishing full relations with Israel and moving close to the United States.
Challengers
During the campaign, diplomats said although Taya remained favourite, for the first time he faced a credible, well-backed opposition which could push the vote to a tense second round.
Taya faces four other challengers including a descendant of slaves and the first woman to run for president in the Islamic republic, a land of nomads and shifting sands.
At his last rally on Wednesday, Taya promised prosperity for his people if they voted for him. Mauritania is a poor country, but many hope for riches from the discovery of offshore oil.
The vast desert state of just 2.9 million people is almost twice as big as former colonial power France but has little more than 800 km of paved roads.
The opposition has accused Taya of rigging past elections and had complained of intimidation during this campaign.
So far this week, the police have searched Haidalla's house, seizing two guns, and arrested two of his sons, all moves his camp has said are designed to scupper the election.
On Thursday, witnesses said armed police took Haidalla from his house and rounded up five other leading members of his campaign, including a businessman.
The businessman refused to leave his house when the police arrived so they fired about a dozen tear gas canisters into the building, injuring three people, and then stormed the house and took the man away, witnesses said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2868801-8FDA-422F-987C-08CB0D96BAAC.htm
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