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Senegal: the president wants to restore the post of prime minister

2021-11-24T21:22:48.974Z


Senegalese President Macky Sall is preparing to restore the post of Prime Minister, which he had removed to everyone's surprise and despite ...


Senegalese President Macky Sall is preparing to restore the post of prime minister he had removed to everyone's surprise and despite protests after his election to a second term in 2019, AFP learned from government sources on Wednesday.

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The Council of Ministers said in a statement that it had adopted a draft revision of the Constitution aimed at restoring the post. This revision will reintroduce the government's responsibility to the National Assembly, which was abolished at the same time as the post of Prime Minister in 2019, and will restore the presidential power to dissolve the National Assembly, the Council of Ministers said.

The text will be submitted under an emergency procedure from November 30 to the Assembly, where the president has the majority, a government official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The project is introduced in a delicate political and social context. The president faced riots in March that left at least a dozen dead. The conditions of economic crisis which have contributed to this unprecedented challenge for years have hardly improved in the meantime despite the remoteness of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tensions reappeared recently with the approach of local elections in January 2022. These must be followed by legislative elections.

Speculation is rife on Macky Sall's candidacy for a third term in 2024. Critics of Macky Sall and political analysts accuse him of a lonely, if not authoritarian exercise of power that would have fueled the exasperation in March.

Source: lefigaro

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