Published on : 01/08/2022 – 07:30
On the front page of the press, this Monday, August 1, the first reactions to Sunday’s legislative elections in Senegal, where the presidential majority claims victory, which the opposition contests the Women’s Football Euro. The occupation of the Iraqi parliament by supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr. And the victory of the English at the Euro women’s football.
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On the front page of the press, the first reactions to yesterday’s legislative elections in Senegal, where the presidential majority claims victory, which the opposition contests.
Daily South mentioned the declaration of President Macky Sall, who was delighted with the smooth running of the ballot: “It is confirmation of the anchoring of our country in its long tradition of mature and peaceful democracy”, welcomed the Head of State, who has promised to appoint a Prime Minister from the winning coalition. According to Young Africa, the opposition, which sought to make this election a “referendum” against the president’s candidacy for a third term, has meanwhile begun to celebrate its victory, in certain areas of Senegal, with the hope of “transforming the January local test ”, where the main opponent of Macky Sall, Ousmane Sonko, and his allies, had made a breakthrough, in several large cities. “Will Macky Sall avoid cohabitation?”: the Burkinabe daily The country evokes a scenario “to say the least hypothetical”, “an almost unimaginable electoral Trafalgar coup”, while saying that he hopes that the president, “Even if he avoids an explosive cohabitation at the end of this legislative election, he will not try to ride the same horse as his two southern neighbours, the Ivorian Alassane Ouattara and the Guinean Alpha Condé”, and that he will agree to give up his chair, at the end of his second and last term, as provided for in the Senegalese Constitution.
In Guinea, where the Constitution has been suspended, the ruling junta, which toppled Alpha Condé last year, has pledged to return power to civilians in three years. The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, which brings together political parties, trade unions and civil society actors, and which wants a shorter deadline, organized demonstrations last week which left at least one person dead. “Hunt for seats in Dakar, manhunt in Conakry!”, Is indignant When Sera.The Guinean news site accuses the head of the ruling junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, of having operated “a robbery in order to usurp from Alpha Condé, a power that he himself had confiscated by granting himself a 3rd mandate “, and to engage, now, “in a muzzling in good and due form of the people”, as would do in Mali “another putschist colonel”, Assimi Goïta.
In Iraq, Parliament was again invaded on Saturday by thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr. Azzamanwhich evokes “the most serious political crisis” experienced by the country, reports that the protesters say they want to continue their sit-in “until the implementation of their demands”: the appointment of a Prime Minister who suits them or new elections, only ten months after the previous ones. Al Mada confirms that protesters still reject the nomination of Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, nominated by political opponents of Moqtada al-Sadr as prime minister, while specifying that the leader is now calling for a “fundamental” change in the constitution and the system Politics.
The Orient By Day, who is worried about a possible “explosion of intra-Shiite violence” in Iraq, also returns to the front page on yesterday’s collapse of part of the grain silos in the port of Beirut, almost two years to the day after the explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital. “Quite a symbol”, headlines the Lebanese daily, which regrets that the investigation into “the cataclysm of August 4, 2020” is still “at a standstill for months”, “hindered by politicians who still refuse to appear before the judge”.
We don’t leave each other on this. No question of letting you slip away without sharing with you the joy of the English footballers, crowned European champions last night for the first time in their history. The “Three Lionesses” won the final 2-1 against the Germans in a white-hot Wembley stadium – and it was the headline of all the press across the Channel this morning. “History” with a capital H, jubilant The Independent, thanking the Lionesses for having “inspired an entire nation”. Players who have “changed the game”, according to The Guardian, which notes that “for more than 150 years, football has been an integral part of the (English) culture and way of life, but that during all these years women have been excluded from it”. “The last time England men lifted a major trophy, the 1966 World Cup, women were still banned from competing in football. Today, facing the same opponent, Germany, in the same stadium, Wembley, it is the whole of English football, and not just half, which has climbed to the top step of the podium”, greets the newspaper. .
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