Les députés sénégalais étudient, ce lundi, dans un climat tendu, une proposition de loi controversée concernant le report de l'élection présidentielle annoncé par le président de la République, Macky Sall.
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00:00 Senegalese MPs are studying, this Monday, in a tense climate, a controversial bill
00:05 concerning the presidential election report announced by the President of the Republic,
00:10 Macky Sall.
00:11 This debate took place after the clashes that occurred yesterday between opponents and
00:14 forces of the order in Dakar.
00:16 Incandescent debate to come to Parliament.
00:18 The day after a violently dispersed demonstration in Dakar, Senegalese MPs are examining,
00:24 Monday, February 5, in an explosive climate, a controversial bill on the report
00:29 of the presidential election announced by the head of state, Macky Sall.
00:33 The debate is announced on this text, which would report the maximum six-month scrutiny
00:38 and whose approval, which requires a majority of the 3/5 of the 165 deputies, is not acquired.
00:44 The vote is scheduled for the end of the morning.
00:46 Macky Sall had announced Saturday, a few hours before the election campaign opened,
00:52 to have signed a decree updating the presidential election which was due to take place on February 25.
00:56 This is the first time since 1963 that a presidential election with a direct universal suffrage
01:01 has been reported in Senegal, a country that has never experienced a coup d'état, a rarity
01:05 on the continent.
01:06 Macky Sall's announcement raised a ruckus and feared a feverish access in a country
01:11 known to be a stable island in West Africa, but which has gone through various episodes
01:15 of deadly trouble since 2021.
01:17 The president of the African Union Commission, Moussa Fakimahama, called on Senegalese
01:23 to settle their different policies through consultation, agreement and dialogue, after
01:28 the tensions and violence caused by the report of the presidential election.
01:31 Expressing his concern about this report, he asks the authorities to organize the elections
01:36 in the best possible time, in transparency, peace and national concord, in a statement
01:42 published on Monday morning on X.
01:44 Conflict between institutions.
01:46 The update of the scrutiny was announced on the basis of conflicts between the National
01:50 Assembly and the Constitutional Council, which validated 20 candidacies in January, a record,
01:55 but rejected several dozen others.
01:57 Two opposition tenors have been excluded, Ousmane Sonko, in prison since July, and Karim
02:03 Waid, minister and son of former President Abdoulaye Waid, 2000 to 2012.