This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
And
now
Senegal
.
The country of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf, until now impeccably democratic, is sliding dangerously towards autocracy: the current president has just unilaterally announced a postponement of the presidential election initially scheduled for the end of the month.
It is not strictly speaking a coup d'état, as Niger, Mali or Gabon have experienced in recent years, but in any case a serious authoritarian drift, as in the Central African Republic.
History has definitely changed
direction.
She has given up following the well-trodden path leading to democracy everywhere and forever.
The American essayist Francis Fukuyama, who made this optimistic prognosis after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was wrong.
China showed the way in 1989, by bloodily repressing the demonstrations in Tian'anmen Square, then Putin spectacularly outbid himself by invading his neighbor in defiance of all the rules...
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