Ouestafnews-Unpublished initiative: A Senegalese MP for the majority filed a resolution proposal in the National Assembly aimed at indictment the former President Macky Sall (2012-2024) for “High betrayal”.
In a publication on his Facebook page on April 15, 2025, MP Guy Marius talks about his proposal to indict the ex-president, dated April 11, 2025, and filed with the National Assembly.
Guy Marius Sagna is a member of the Pastef (African Patriotes in Senegal Pastef Patriots for Work, Ethics and Fraternity).
High betrayal is the only charge chief who can be criticized for a former head of state in Senegal according to the Constitution in his article 101. The deputy of Pastef is based on this provision to justify his approach against the former Senegalese president.
The article in question provides that the President of the Republic is not responsible for his actions in the exercise of his functions in the event of “high betrayal”. According to this constitutional provision, the president “can only be charged by the National Assembly by a vote (…) by the majority of three fifths of the members composing them, at least 90 votes out of 165.
However, since the legislative elections in November 2024, the presidential party has been in the majority in the Senegalese parliament, with 130 seats, which could facilitate the adoption of the resolution as soon as it is subject to the vote.
According to him, the deputy’s argument is based on serious offenses to the constitutional principles of budgetary transparency and good governance. Mr. Sagna evokes “breaches of exceptional gravity”.
The text presented by the deputy is based on the “revelations” of a report by the Court of Auditors published on February 13, 2025 on the country’s financial management between 2019 and March 2024, during the second term of Macky Sall.
The supporters of the ex-president rejected this report accusing the current power of wanting to tarnish the mandate of their mentor who has lived in Morocco since his departure in power.
According to the deputy who takes up the elements of the report, the administration of President Sall contracted 2,517 billion CFA francs in debt outside any legal framework-that is to say without parliamentary authorization or registration in a finance law. In addition, 2,562 billion CFA francs were managed via irregular deposit accounts with the Treasury, also escaping any control, according to the document.
Based on the Court’s report, the deputy of Pastef also evokes many accounting irregularities, including manipulations of revenue, extrabudal operations, or even illegal attaches, having led to a false representation of the budgetary deficit and public debt.
For Guy Marius Sagna, the practices criticized for the former president are not only of poor management: they constitute “a threat to the financial sovereignty of Senegal”. By bypassing the republican institutions, in particular the Parliament, the former president engaged the State in heavy commitments “without democratic debate or transparency”, he underlines.
In a contribution published following the release of the report from the Court of Auditors, the former Minister of Youth, Pope Malick Ndour indicated that “all the regulations from 2019 to 2021, were voted by the Parliament after certification by the Court of Auditors”. It is the same, according to him for all the texts of 2022 and 2023, therefore, he believes, if “inconsistencies appear” in the new report of the Court of Auditors, “it is then advisable to question the quality of said report”.
If this resolution is adopted, the president questioned can only be judged by the High Court of Justice, as the Constitution wants. Thus, Macky Sall could become the first former Senegalese head of state to be prosecuted before this institution, the only jurisdiction competent to judge a former president in the context of such accusations.
This initiative marks a turning point in the institutional life of Senegal: if the procedure results, it will be a first in more than 60 years of political history in Senegal.
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