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<p>Burkina Faso’s interim leader, <a target="_blank" href="http://gistreel.com/tag/Captain-Ibrahim-Traoré"><strong>Captain Ibrahim Traoré</strong></a>, has declared that democracy is not a necessary condition for a nation’s development, stating that no country can truly claim to have achieved progress solely through democratic governance.</p>
<p>Speaking during a recent flag-raising ceremony at the Koulouba Palace, Traoré dismissed the relevance of democracy to Burkina Faso’s current political direction, describing the system as incompatible with the realities of the <strong>West African nation</strong>.</p>
<p><em>“If we have to say it loud and clear here, we are not in a democracy, we are in a popular, progressive revolution,”</em> Traoré stated.</p>
<p><em>“We must necessarily go through a revolution, and we are indeed in a revolution. So this question of democracy or libertinism of action or expression has no place.”</em></p>
<p>According to him, what many understand as democracy only breeds disorder when individual liberties go unchecked.</p>
<p><em>“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 with a society of disorder,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>He further argued that no country has developed <em>because</em> of democracy, claiming that “democracy is only the result” of development—not its catalyst.</p>
<p>Traoré, 37, came to power following a military coup in September 2022 that overthrew interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. Since then, he has positioned himself as a vocal critic of <strong>Western models of governance</strong>, advocating instead for what he calls a “people-powered revolution.”</p>
<p>His comments are likely to deepen the ideological divide between Burkina Faso’s transitional government and its Western allies, many of whom continue to push for a return to constitutional rule in the Sahel region.</p>
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