 The cost of using this other process is estimated at 41 billion West African CFA francs (nearly $83 million US dollars).At a meeting between the government and political parties on 3 January 2012, the National Director of the Interior, to the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Local Government, Bassidi Coulibaly, acknowledged the weak influence of citizens for revision of the electoral lists.Just as campaigning was about to get under way, the Malian government lifted the state of emergency in place in the country since the northern battles.