Rédaction Africa Links 24 with pierre Dieme
Published on 2024-03-03 22:02:48
By Samba Traoré, Associate Professor in Law and Political Science, member of the National Commission for Institutional Reform (Cnri)
Every day we hear and read discussions, controversies, positions, opinions, and even injunctions on the fate of Senegal from April 2nd. This is frightening, Senegalese people are afraid, GREAT FEAR SETTLES OVER SENEGAL. It is normal to be worried, as the end of a reign and a cycle is a period of doubt. Law is crushed or crushed. The law is turned into a puppet, politicians fall into a schizophrenic syncope. The people rise and wait. There are solutions, but we do not know where the problem lies. Senegal is running on empty. We no longer read the constitution, we no longer know what a Republic is, we blame the State and absolve it. We poorly defend the State because we confuse our own partisan, corporatist, and even familial, clan-based, and tribal interests with those of the Republic. There are more declared republicans than public ones. We gesticulate, we lie, we threaten, we steal, we accuse. In short, we ignore the meaning of law, of the constitution, of morality, we ignore the power of God and the ancestors, we ignore the laws of nature and the common sense of humanity.
Nevertheless, we mention the constitution and the law, without going all the way. A law is interpreted according to the reality of the moment, a law is stuck in the present, in the current state of a society, in its mental universe. It is March 3rd, less than a month until April 2nd. The President’s mandate expires in less than a month. Just as the President was not welcome to postpone an election on the eve of an election campaign, he can neither resign the day before the expiration of his mandate. Moreover, just as a resignation is not valid and admissible the day before or on the day of the expiration of the mandate, it is impossible for him to be replaced by the President of the National Assembly because we are outside the cases and situations provided for by the constitution itself. If the President were to leave on April 2nd without organizing the elections, there will be no legal vacuum because the Constitutional Council will have the latitude and prerogative to appoint an interim, anyone, including the outgoing President himself if he accepts, to organize the elections on a date set by the Council, as the administration remains intact as long as there is the State. We complicate things too much in this country. Our grandfathers would have quickly resolved this issue over a few kola nuts and a pot of chewing tobacco. Let’s stop complicating our lives and stop putting this country in danger. Senegal is worth more than all of us.
I have only given my opinion. Maybe the hyenas will think I insulted their conscience, but that’s their business.
I HAVE SAID AND I HAVE SPOKEN. LONG LIVE SENEGAL FOR ALL.
Read the original article(French) on Dakar Matin
