This comes two weeks after officers staged a coup that suspended the constitution. The 29-article charter, published on Tuesday, requires presidential and legislative elections to be held at the end of the one-year transitional period, with the polling date to be set by the transitional President.

The coup came one day before the electoral commission was due to announce the results of presidential and legislative elections.

According to the charter, the Military High Command will control legal and institutional reforms during the transition, including drafting revisions to the suspended constitution, setting up a new Constitutional Court, changing regulations for political parties and overseeing the appointment of new electoral officials.

 A 65-member National Transition Council, including 10 senior army officers representing the Military High Command, will serve as a transitional legislative body.

–ChannelAfrica–