Rédaction Africa Links 24 with pierre Dieme
Published on 2024-03-03 20:13:51
The considerations raised by President Macky Sall before the Commission to decide on the date of the presidential election, during his closing speech at the dialogue, regarding Ramadan, Lent, Easter, and the Daaka, do not make sense to Mamadou Lamine Diallo of the Tekki movement. According to him, there is always something happening in Senegal before the Sunday Jury. “There are Ziarra all the time. No, no, I don’t think those are valid arguments. Honestly, during the month of Ramadan, there was the Battle of Badr. What is valid is what the Council said before April 2. And from April 2, you cannot extend your mandate. Everything else is perhaps hypothetical, if I may be kind. That’s where we are,” explained the presidential candidate.
For him, “the Constitutional Council is now the bulwark of the Republic. And if tomorrow, the Council says it validates the June 2 date, which it had agreed upon during the dialogue, I submit. I am consistent. Even if I do not agree, I submit. Even if the Council validates the partial resumption of the process.”
Furthermore, Mamadou Lamine Diallo points out that knowing Macky’s term ends on April 2, it will be up to the Constitutional Council to give direction. “It will be up to the Constitutional Council to make a decision, to say, on April 2, Macky Sall is no longer the President of the Republic of Senegal. And so, it is the Constitutional Council, who in my opinion, has the power, and should do it. And its decision will be binding on everyone, including the army, including the police, including the judiciary, including the administration. That’s what will save the Republic in Senegal.”
However, the candidate specifies that “the Constitutional Council has made a decision, or in any case, has made decisions to say, firstly, something extremely important, that the President’s term ends on April 2 and that the proposed law passed in the National Assembly to amend Article 31 is unconstitutional. That is extremely important. For the system. For the future of Senegal. For the future of West Africa. So, it is definitively settled, at least from a legal and constitutional point of view, that Macky Sall’s term cannot be extended by an hour, a minute, a second.”
Read the original article(French) on Dakar Matin
