A new extraordinary session opened on Thursday at the National Assembly at the request of the President. Four bills and a general policy statement are on the agenda of this session, which therefore puts on hold the motion of censure introduced by the deputies of the camp of former President Macky Sall. Each camp blames the other for blocking government action.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
The opening of this new session, this Thursday, will have lasted only a few minutes: the examination of the bills will begin on Saturday, but in each camp, the positions remain unchanged.
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Moussa Diakhaté, chairman of the law commission, one of the leaders of the majority coalition in Parliament, regrets that the Prime Minister has still not presented his program to the deputies: ” The Prime Minister, he doesn’t respect us. Why this contempt? It is not because we are victorious that we must despise minorities, that is not democracy! The minister is in the process of overstepping these rules and bringing our institutions to their knees! The Senegalese want to know where they want to lead us, where is the problem? »
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