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The Senegalese dailies that reached APA on Tuesday mainly report on the configuration and political maneuvers at the end of the legislative elections of July 31 and 18 months before the presidential election of 2024.Sud Quotidien headlines on the end of President Macky Sall’s five-year term and notes that he is “between two fires”. “With some eighteen months left to him at the head of the executive power, the President of the Republic finds himself torn, against all expectations, between the ferment of a social front which is widening more and more and the uncertainties of ‘a parliamentary majority which only depends on one deputy’, notes the newspaper. Walf Quotidien stops for its part on “what awaits the Constitutional Council” if it should decide on a possible third candidacy of Macky Sall in the presidential election of 2024. Indeed, “Macky does not have the right to sacrifice the members of the Constitutional Council”, indicates the opponent Abdourahmane Diouf. Faced with this subject which keeps many Senegalese in suspense, EnQuête sees “an opposition that is difficult to reconcile” despite the 82 seats it obtained out of 165 during the last legislative elections. “The accusations of Ousmane Sonko during the electoral campaign (are) still brandished” by part of the parliamentary opposition, like the supporters of Thierno Alassane Sall and Pape Djibril Fall, “non-registered deputies”, for justify its disagreement with the inter-coalition Yewwi Askan Wi (YAW, free the people) and Wallu Senegal (save Senegal), says the newspaper. In addition, Le Quotidien notes a “clash of ambitions at YAW” for the post of President of the National Assembly. Indeed, the journalist Ahmed Aidara, deputy and mayor of Guédiawaye, a populous city in the suburbs of Dakar, “considers himself the most legitimate of the candidates”, according to the newspaper. On the preparation of the Magal de Touba, a major annual event commemorating the departure into exile in Gabon of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, the guide of the Mouride community, an important brotherhood established in the center of Senegal, Vox Populi notes that the Caliph General “Serigne Mountakha Mbacké determines the conduct to be followed” by the faithful. “Residents of Touba must be able to rely on Serigne Touba (Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba) in everything and be worthy representatives. Those who do not live in Touba should only come there for Serigne Touba,” he recommended. In Bés Bi, the religious leader calls for “introspection” as a prelude to the celebration of 18 Safar, the date of Magal de Touba corresponding to September 15 in this year’s Gregorian calendar. “We have to question ourselves,” said Serigne Mountakha Mbacké.

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