2023-07-05 10:27:12
The day following the announcement of President Macky Sall’s decision not to run for a third term in February 2024, the opposition coalition Yéwwi Askan Wi said on July 4 that it was waiting for “other steps in the direction of the pacification of the public and political space.” The government welcomes him, “a historic first”: never a Senegalese president had organized elections for his succession without participating in this election himself.
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“There will be no elections without Ousmane Sonko and Macky will…”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-04 23:33:25
Like those close to Ousmane Sonko, MP Cheikh Thioro Mbacké describes President Macky Sall’s non-participation in the 2024 presidential election as a non-event.
According to the parliamentarian elected under the banner of the Yewwi Askan Wi (Yaw) coalition, the Head of State does not have the right to serve another term. Facing the press with his fellow MP Fatima Mbodj, the Departmental Coordinator of Pastef in Mbacké is convinced that Ousmane Sonko will indeed be a candidate in 2024. Better, he warns, without Ousmane Sonko, there will be no elections. in Senegal.
→ READ ALSO: Ferdinand Ayité predicts a dark future for Ousmane Sonko: “He risks a second trial linked to the violence”
What regarding the probable arrest of its leader Ousmane Sonko? The MP is categorical: “If Macky Sall wants to liquidate Ousmane Sonko, he must pass over our corpses. We are ready to lay down our lives there. We ask all patriots to stand up and remain mobilized so as not to betray political prisoners and our dead » . Before adding that the department of Mbacké is and will remain at the heart of the fight once morest injustice.
Thus, he announces the holding of a megameeting in Mbacké to invest Ousmane Sonko. The leader of Pastef will be forcibly removed from his home in Keur Gorgui city during this event, according to the coordinator.
→ READ ALSO: Birame Souleye Diop warns relatives of Macky Sall: “He is capable of poisoning you…” (Video)
Regarding the ban on political activities in the holy city, supporters of Ousmane Sonko welcome this decision taken by the Caliph General of the Mourides Serigne Mountakha Mbacké. For them, the members of BBY flouted the bans in Touba, by organizing meetings respectively at the Khadim Rassoul residence of Darou Marnane and at Mbaru Darou Khoudoss.
→ READ ALSO: News from Macky Sall, following giving up his candidacy: “He went to…”
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2023-07-04 20:05:51
The messages of congratulations to President Macky Sall are going well! This time, it is the former Secretary of State in charge of Senegalese Abroad Moïse Sarr who sent a strong message to the Head of State who will not run for the Presidential of February 25, 2024.
Here is his full statement!
→ READ ALSO: Former Minister of Justice Malick Sall praises President Macky Sall who gives up a 3rd candidacy
« President Macky SALL or the great lesson of democracy!
Mr. President, this Monday, July 3, 2023, you wrote a new page in the political history of our dear country, Senegal. While several voices and not the least were raised to commit You to a second five-year term, You have decided not to run for the next presidential election on February 25, 2024.
→ READ ALSO: Serigne Mbaye Thiam’s strong words to Macky Sall: “The Macky I know”
As a man of integrity and faithful to your word, You have chosen to be satisfied with these mandates which are well fulfilled in all respects. From 2012 to today, you have been a great builder, radically changing the face of our dear country. As You said so well, the time to take stock will come, and at that time, it is true, we will be able to lay out the long list of Your achievements as the fourth President of Senegal.
I like to remember from you today the great democrat that you are. You make us, today even more than yesterday, proud to be Senegalese. Your decision today is one of those that forever mark the history of a Nation. You have inscribed in marble and in letters of gold, both our country and Your name in the pantheon of democracy, because for the first time in the life of our young Nation, the Outgoing President will not participate in the next presidential election.
Of course, you have accustomed us to large-scale innovations, but this one, democratic for our country, many did not see coming. But, for those of us who have known you for several decades, such a decision, filled with magnanimity and responsibility, hardly surprises us.
→ READ ALSO: Macky Sall gives up a 3rd candidacy, the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition reacts
It is by Your side that I fully accomplished myself as a politician. Many of us have been formed by You. It is with You that we really understood what it means to be “in responsibility”. You have always been a unifying, unparalleled politician; it is with you that liberals, socialists, ecologists, communists, centrists, progressives (and who knows what else!) have worked in the same coalition for the higher interest of the Nation. It is with You that territorial and social equity has become a reality for the entire Senegalese population, from East to West, from North to South, from the Center to the Peripheries, harmoniously combining the Rural with the Urban. . You have been able, with patience, selflessness and pedagogy, in a meticulous and orderly manner, to build the Senegal of all, Senegal for all.
Above all, You have once more shown every Senegalese loving peace and democracy and that we have nothing to envy to others. We are, of course, a young Nation, but a Nation strong in its men and its values, among which our ancestral values around the cult of a job well done, respect for the word given, but also solidarity and justice. social.
You have thus made all of Africa proud and shown the whole world that there is hope of living in a better world where democratic rules will triumph over uncertainty and chaos. This will inevitably be part of Your legacy to future generations.
You have, largely and beyond our expectations, accomplished Your “Liggeyal Ëuleuk” mission and above all confirmed that You carry “Senegal at your heart”.
We are proud of our companionship and stand shoulder to shoulder to continue Your masterful work in discipline, unity and solidarity, pledges of a resounding victory for our grand coalition on the evening of February 25, 2024.
United and determined, we will win.
MAY ALLAH EASE YOU, BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
Moses SARR,
APR political leader and former Secretary of State for Senegalese Abroad. »
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Ousmane Sonko calls on Senegalese to “go out massively” in anticipation of a speech by Macky Sall
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-02 23:56:15
Opponent Ousmane Sonko, sentenced to two years in prison in a sex scandal, invites the Senegalese to come together “to confront the regime of Macky Sall”. The Senegalese president must announce in the evening whether he will be a candidate for a third presidential term in 2024.
Published on: 03/07/2023 – 01:56
Opponent Ousmane Sonko does not intend to leave the field open to Macky Sall. He called, Sunday, July 2, the Senegalese to “go out massively” the next few days. This call comes the day before an address to the nation by President Macky Sall during which he must say whether he will be a candidate for a third presidential term in 2024.
President Sall’s announcement, scheduled for 8 p.m. (local and GMT) on Monday July 3, is eagerly awaited in Senegal. The vagueness he maintained regarding his intentions in relation to the presidential election contributed to creating an explosive climate.
“We must come out to confront the regime of Macky Sall and say that it will not be up to him to choose the candidates who will have to compete for the next presidential election”, he declared during an intervention on the social networks.
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Ousmane Sonko was sentenced a month ago to two years in prison in a sex scandal, which currently makes him ineligible. This sentence led to the most serious unrest in Senegal in early June, killing 16 people according to the authorities, 24 according to Amnesty International and 30 according to the opposition.
Ousmane Sonko has constantly shouted at the plot of power to exclude him from the presidential election of February 2024, which the power refutes. He has been blocked by the security forces at his home in Dakar, “kidnapped” according to him, since May 28.
Sonko calls for a “national outburst” once morest Sall’s candidacy
Macky Sall was elected in 2012, re-elected in 2019. He had the Constitution revised in 2016. It stipulates that “no one may serve more than two consecutive terms”. His supporters present him as their candidate in 2024, arguing that the revision has reset the counters to zero.
According to the opponent, if the president does not show up, it will be to better eliminate him politically and relaunch the judicial machine and “this is not acceptable”. In case of arrest, “I call on all the Senegalese people to stand up as one man and come out massively and this time to put an end to this criminal regime”.
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If the president shows up, “I believe it’s incumbent on all the Senegalese people to stand up, to face him,” he said. “If we have to fight a fight, it must be definitive. I call for a national leap forward. The days and weeks to come will be crucial.”
He also called on the Senegalese to mobilize to demand the release of political prisoners and to put an end to his “administrative detention” as soon as possible.
A biased “national dialogue”, according to Sonko
For the opponent, the consultation at the initiative of President Sall, which ended ten days ago, is nothing but a “deal” between the different political forces which participated for the eliminated from the presidential race.
This “national dialogue” put two opponents, Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall, on the track, whose political trajectory had been brutally interrupted by legal troubles and who had been deprived of the 2019 presidential election. The case of Ousmane Sonko has not not been addressed by consultation.
When closing the proceedings, President Sall had previously argued that only political, and not constitutional, factors would prevent him from running, and affirmed that his choice would be “free and sovereign”.
Saturday, in front of local elected officials who had made a petition to support him, he called on his political family to unite and to place “the general interest” and “the interest of the coalition” before any other consideration.
“My fight and my greatest pride are really to lead you to victory and to pursue our economic policy for the benefit of our populations”, he declared, stressing that the roadmap to make Senegal an emerging country in 2035 was already “tagged”.
With AFP
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