Chaotic parliamentary return to Senegal: “These scenes augur an extremely difficult tomorrow”

Published on : 14/09/2022 – 07:57

Brutality within the Senegalese Parliament. Intervention of the gendarmes during the parliamentary session devoted to the vote of the President of the National Assembly. On the screenshot, an opposition parliamentarian who stands up to try to stop the vote for the new President of the Assembly is neutralized by gendarmes. Dakar in Senegal, September 12, 2022. © Thomson/Archyde.com

Crush, fights, exchanges of insanity… In Senegal, the installation of new deputies, Monday September 13, 2022, turned into a rat race. The President of the National Assembly, Amadou Mame Diop, from the presidential majority, was elected in the presence of gendarmes in the hemicycle during a vote boycotted by the opposition. What lessons can be learned from this eventful return to Parliament? Papa Fara Diallo is a research professor in political science at Gaston Berger University in Saint Louis. He is the guest of Charlotte Idrac.