Bassirou Faye
As requested by the new Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, still in prison ten days before his accession to power, a national consultation aimed at reforming and modernizing the country’s justice system was held in the new town of Diamniadio, near Dakar.
For six days, members of the government, former prisoners, magistrates and members of civil society met to discuss reform of the judicial sector.
The conclusions of this national dialogue presented to the public recommended on Tuesday around ten key measures to fundamentally reform Senegalese justice.
Among the recommendations is the establishment of a Constitutional Court that is more autonomous and open to profiles other than magistrates, instead of a Constitutional Council. This reform would allow the judges who make up this court to no longer be exclusively appointed by the President of the Republic.
As other points, the revision of the penal code, the family code, the limitation of the powers of the prosecutor, the construction of new prisons, the digitalization of the justice service.
“Senegalese justice is inadequate in many respects, ineffective in others, too repressive or ineffective,” the majority of participants recognized, according to the rapporteur.
Remember that the president, his prime minister Ousmane Sonko and a certain number of executives of their party were imprisoned under the regime of the former head of state Macky Sall and have continued to denounce over the last three years an instrumentalization of justice.
They had promised during the electoral campaign to reform it in depth.
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