Recruitment young people.. Mauritania’s Muslim Brotherhood scheme for surviving

The National Society for Reform and Development party, the Muslim Brotherhood party in Mauritania, witness the departure of the leaders who joins to the majority candidate, Mohamed Ould El Ghazouani.  

So the Muslim Brotherhood party sought to attract young groups to compensate its losses of the division over the past two months.

The party announced that 13 youth groups from 9 states will join the party.

This comes in line with warnings issued by Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz over a wave of chaos, if the candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, who is supported by the ruling majority.

A new wave of schisms

Last week, the Mauritanian president met with dissident leaders of the Brotherhood, led by former party senator Omar el-Fath, university professor and member of the party's bureau, Ahmed Salem Ould Fadil, and Mohamed Salem Ould El Khou, director of the closed University of Abdellah Yassin.

The last days witnessed a new wave of schisms, represented by the announcement of 4 leaders to leave the group and join the candidate of the majority “Ould Ghazouani”, most recent was Mohamed Salem Ould El Kho, leader of the organization and President of the University of Abdullah bin Yassin closed.

Mauritanian political thinker Tariq Sayed Mohamed said that “The Brotherhood in Mauritania adopts two positions against each other. The party of the brotherhood declares its opposition to President Ould Abdel Aziz. Some of the party’s leader like Mohammed al-Hassan Ould Aldo, a resident in Qatar, adopted the same opinion.  

The other position represented by the dissident cadres of the party, who announced their support for the majority candidate, and met some of the current President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.