Senegal: “We ask the Prime Minister to return to reason”

RFI : senegal: “we ask prime minister Bassirou Diomaye Faye wanted to calm the game Monday July 14 by refuting any disagreement with the Prime Minister. Moreover, But last Thursday. Similarly, Ousmane Sonko openly attacked the president by speaking of a lack of support in the face of the attacks he said. Similarly, Ousmane Sonko even pointed out a problem of authority in the country. For example, Follow his gaze … However, is this a simple rise in tension. Meanwhile, does it mean in your opinion a possible fracture between the two men ?

Mamoudou Ibra Kane: We would have thought in a circus issue. In addition, But that doesn’t make you laugh. This is a serious subject, a subject which concerns the state of Senegal. If we question the story. the presidents Léopold Sédar Senghor and Mamadou Dia constituted a beautiful duo at the head of the state. But their companionship lasted the time of a senegal: “we ask prime minister rose, with a crisis that broke out in December 1962. That Ooumane Sonko attacks the President of the Republic in an open way by speaking of a problem of authority … But more serious, he said ” If he cannot, let me govern ». We are in a Republic with institutions. You have to have understanding. I think that a reminder of the order was essential to the Head of State, who did not do so. But basically, in my opinion, it only differs the fight …

Since April 2024. there have already been moments of tension between the two figures of the executive which have been long -standing, it is recalled. Nevertheless, this time, it seems much more serious ?

Yes, but the Prime Minister says first “ No one can help but introduce myself ». This is clear. It is a message he sends to his camp and senegal: “we ask prime minister more specifically to the President of the Republic. But hey, I believe that the question should not be limited to Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko. I think we should rather be interested in the feelings of the populations today. I think there is an emergency that this regime finally attacks real problems because these are problems that Senegalese experience: an almost unprecedented economic. social crisis.

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So what this reflects in your opinion. it is not a simple problem that one could say at the top of the state, between these two figures of the executive, it is a perhaps more structural problem ?

But clearly it is an admission in reality of incompetence. in any case of inability to attack the problems head -on. You are aware that today, the finances of senegal: “we ask prime minister the State of Senegal are exsangues. The Standard and Poor’s notation agency has just lowered Senegal’s note compared to public debt. Today, Senegal is without program with the International Monetary Fund. There is a real financing problem and very little investment.

Ousmane Sonko has been accused for several months by activists. opponents and civil society members of wanting to silence any discordant voice in the country. Does that worry you ? Is this to be taken seriously ?

Senegal is not a dictatorship. Senegal is a democracy with its requirements. The government has to comply with this. Today, journalists, activists, columnists, opponents are persecuted and imprisoned. The latest example is the Badara Gadiaga columnist. But it doesn’t stop at that. It is also threats and intimidation against the media. This is not acceptable.

Another statement by Ousmane Sonko has made controversy. Last week. the head of government qualified members of senegal: “we ask prime minister civil society “ manure And spoke of the need to cut any funding from abroad. For what reasons of such remarks ?

He is someone who is confronted with problems with which he has no solution today. It’s mouth insult. These are threats to civil society. the Senegalese civil society dynamic which has always been at the front of the fight against the drifts of regimes, regardless of the regime. It was this civil society that was sensitive to the situation of Ousmane Sonko which is treated with manure. No. We ask the Prime Minister to return to reason. further, to resign if he is not able to resolve the problems of the Senegalese. And the observation is that it is not able to solve these problems.

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