Rédaction Africa Links 24 with pierre Dieme
Published on 2024-03-07 14:13:26
He just wanted one thing, to secure his own while the people were distracted by a date. Macky Sall got his amnesty for his supporters who were becoming more dangerous than his opponents.
It is laughable to hear the nickname given to the soon-to-be former president of the Republic, Macky Sall, who, through confusing political maneuvers, by the true sense of the term, the Senegalese have called “El Tactico”…
For a year now, his overheated brain has plunged Senegal into a dangerous zone, the contours of which are starting to take shape and offering the universal image of a country in total institutional decay.
It is customary in Senegal to say that the national newspaper “Le Soleil” never truly sheds light. Well, for once, on the day of the “interview” given to a few colleagues by Macky Sall, when his Director General, rumpled and disheveled as never before, asked him the incongruous question of whether his supporters would be protected on the evening of his departure, this seemingly awkward question was actually the essential question that was preoccupying the presidential mind.
The king just wanted one thing, to secure his own while the people were distracted by a date. Macky Sall got his amnesty for his supporters who were becoming more dangerous than his opponents. At the risk of making the “government of Mermoz” win against that of Senegal, he has plunged our country into a permanent institutional crisis that has propelled us to the forefront of quasi-banana republics, which development partners are turning away from and credit rating agencies advise against engaging with.
The king is naked, he has delegated his authority to an evening gang of conspirators, who in total incompetence and a taste for political intrigue are plunging Senegal into uncharted turbulence.
An incomprehensible election program, unreadable authority, government on vacation, candidate of the outgoing coalition exposed, an amnesty law passed when the government no longer exists, an electoral campaign during both Christian and Muslim fasting periods, an election on Easter Sunday, the most important day on the Christian calendar, one wonders what kind of chaos is going on in the minds of these schemers to have reached such a level of complexity and political ineptitude.
The problem is that they have brought us to the brink and soon some will promise us… a great step forward. We know the rest.
BY JEAN PIERRE CORRÉA
Read the original article(French) on Dakar Matin
