The former Prime Minister of Senegal Aminata Touré, elected deputy of the presidential camp during the legislative elections of July before distancing herself from President Macky Sall and his party, was stripped of her post following an initiative of the camp presidential election, AFP learned on Tuesday from parliamentarians and the person concerned.
“The office of the National Assembly voted for the forfeiture of Ms. Aminata Touré” after a referral from the parliamentary group of the presidential camp which says it has noted the “de facto resignation” of Ms. Touré from its ranks, told AFP the opposition MP Abba Mbaye.
Ten members of the office voted in favor of this forfeiture against seven, said Mr. Mbaye who denounced a violation, according to him, of the texts.
This “forfeiture” and the upcoming replacement of Ms. Touré, who had been head of government for Mr. Sall from 2013 to 2014, was confirmed by a deputy from the presidential camp, Adjie Mbergane Kanouté.
On IRadio, Ms. Kanouté spoke of a “behavior of Ms. Aminata Touré against the presidential party which invested her” deputy, with which “she is no longer in phase and that she no longer defends in the Assembly national”.
In a press release then sent to AFP, Ms. Touré said she had learned of her “exclusion from the National Assembly by President Macky Sall, in total violation of the law”.
“I remain more than ever determined to continue my fight for the entrenchment of Senegalese democracy and against its attempt at a morally and legally unacceptable third term,” she added in this text.
In September, Ms. Touré announced her withdrawal from the group supporting the Head of State in Parliament, justifying it by her opposition to a third presidential term for Macky Sall.
Elected in 2012 for seven years and re-elected in 2019 for five years, the latter is silent on his intentions to run again in 2024.
Ms. Touré was one of three deputies not affiliated with any parliamentary group of power or opposition, out of the 165 in the Assembly.
For the first time since independence, the presidential camp has lost the absolute majority it held after the July legislative elections, which gave a virtual balance of power to the Assembly.
After having led the majority campaign and led her list in the July legislative elections, Ms. Touré had left the camp of power after being sidelined at the last minute from the post of President of the Assembly, who then returned to a close friend of President Sall, Amadou Mame Diop.