"We Are Not In A Democracy, We Are in A Revolution," ~ Captain Ibrahim Traoré 🇧🇫
The President of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, took the opportunity to deliver a speech during the flag-raising ceremony on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at the Koulouba Palace. He clarified the political situation in Burkina Faso, which is indeed in "a revolution and not a democracy."
If we have to say it loud and clear here, we are not in a democracy, we are in a popular, progressive revolution,” said the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, loud and clear during the flag-raising ceremony on April 1, 2025.
"Everyone needs to understand this. It's even more surprising that those who are supposed to be intellectuals, who have been to school, can imagine that a country can develop in democracy," he protested, before adding, "that's false." "It's impossible to name a single country that has developed in democracy. Democracy is only the end result," argues Captain Ibrahim Traoré.
To achieve this, he suggested, "we must necessarily go through a revolution, and we are indeed in a revolution." "For those who haven't yet understood this, we're still saying it loud and clear," the president insisted. He insisted that "everyone must incorporate this" from now on.
"We will continue to play our role of communicating, explaining, and making people understand what our revolution is. So this question of democracy or libertinism of action or expression has no place. As much as you think you are free to speak and act, the other is also free to speak and act, and there we end up in a society of disorder," clarified the President of Faso in conclusion.