2024-03-26 08:32:30
In Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye spoke his first words as future president of the country on March 25, 2024, the day after the first round of voting. How can we explain the massive success of the candidate from a political formulation dissolved by the authorities and who was still in prison a few days ago? Decryption with the special edition of RFI of March 26, 2024.
Published on: 03/26/2024 – 09:32 Modified on: 03/26/2024 – 09:36
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It’s a phone call that will go down in the history of Senegal : less than 24 hours after the closing of the polling stations for the first round of the presidential of March 24, 2024, Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister and majority candidate, called the opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye to recognize his defeat, as the former head of state Abdoulaye Wade did in 2012 with the young president at the time, Macky Sall.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44, right-hand man of opponent Ousmane Sonko for 10 years, will thus access the highest functions of the State.
If, however, Bassirou tries to deviate a little from our trajectory, we will pull his ears!
Presidential election in Senegal: for supporters of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, he will change the country
Charlotte Idrac
It is a page of history that is being written, a new peaceful democratic alternation, a promise of rupture also which RFI returns to in its special edition.
With the participation of:
– Fatou Diagne Senghorhuman rights defender, director of the Afrikajom Center think tank
– Christopher FomunyohAfrica Director of NDI, a think tank based in Washington
– Seydi Gassamadirector of the NGO Amnesty Senegal
– Francis Kpatindéjournalist and teacher at Sciences Po Paris
– Valdiodio Here he iselectoral expert, former Secretary General of the Collective of Civil Society Organizations for Elections
– Léa-Lisa WesterhoffRFI correspondent in Dakar
– Frédéric Couteau, author of the Africa and France press reviews on RFI
A special edition broadcast from 7:10 a.m. to 8 a.m. UT this Tuesday and presented by Nathalie Amarcoordinated by Carine Frank, Celine Pellarin et Léa-Lisa Westerhoff, and produced by Didier Cheyrouze.
I feel relief and pride. Relief, because we came close to corrections and we avoided a postponement which would have been a great harm to our democracy. We escaped it. At the same time, pride in seeing these mature people who peacefully went to the polling station and returned home. And ultimately, they are a people who know what they want. And really, it’s great. I think it is a lesson in democracy that he is giving to all of Africa. All I hope is that what has just happened in Senegal can spread across Africa. […] It is through democracy that we will achieve development, not through authoritarian regimes.
Babacar Guèye, professor of constitutional law at Ucad and member of Aar sunu Election, a collective which defended the holding of the presidential election before April 2
Carine Frank
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