In Senegal, the political standoff between the opposition and the government is getting tougher. Faced with the threat of a motion of censure filed by the camp of the former president, still in the majority in the National Assembly, to bring down the government, the executive counter-attacked this Wednesday: President Bassirou Diomaye Faye requested the opening of an extraordinary session of the National Assembly to avoid examining a motion of censure.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
This is a bit of an epilogue to the standoff that began with the opposition on Monday, which wants to prevent the elimination of two institutions deemed to be too heavy on the budget.
After the National Assembly, dominated by the opposition, rejected a bill along these lines, the executive branch got around the obstacle by decree: President Bassirou Diomaye Faye terminated the functions of the presidents of the High Council of Local Authorities and the Economic and Social Council.
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Transformed into empty shells, the two institutions are in fact deleted, at least that is what the Prime Minister promisedOusmane Sonko rather during the day.
Avoiding consideration of the motion of censure
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