Alioune Tine, founding president of Afrikajom Center, declares that he has the impression of witnessing the establishment of a “Pastefian State”, given the appointments to positions of responsibility made by the new regime. A position that this civil society personality defended during a round table.
By Amadou MBODJI – The remark is significant. It comes from Alioune Tine. The president of the think-thank Afrikajom Center has his reading of the progress of the country since the advent of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. “From my point of view, after having witnessed what we can call an aggressive State, we do not have the impression of having turned the page on the partisan State,” notes Alioune Tine, who continues to contest the invalidation of the candidacies of Sonko and Karim Wade in the last presidential election. Mr. Tine, who spoke during the round table organized yesterday by the Senegalese Association of Constitutional Law (Asdc), will say to the attention of the audience, underlines Seneweb: “We have the impression that he is putting himself in little by little creates a Pastefian state.”
The appointments to strategic positions of many members of the Pastef party reflect this feeling that inhabits Alioune Tine. The latter, during his intervention, also returned to the number of stages of the political-electoral crisis that the country had to go through before leading to the election of March 24.
This eminent member of civil society continued his reflection by arguing: “The challenge is to see how we can navigate this new mutation of democracy, and not reduce our democracy to an electoral democracy. And do not reduce legitimacy to a single legitimacy of those who are elected. There are new legitimacies emerging, which are strong.”
Analyzing the evolution of the Diomaye-Sonko duo at the head of the country, Alioune Tine underlines: “The inversion that there is at the level of the hierarchy of the ruling party (Pastef) means that we have someone who has a legitimacy overload (Ousmane Sonko, Editor’s note) who becomes Prime Minister. This will completely decentralize power, and we are seeing it happen. This will create new tensions that must be prevented now.”
“On the other side, we have the political debt of Diomaye (the President of the Republic). An extremely high debt which is a weight on its shoulders at the moment. This is what creates tension at the top of power,” he will further point out.
And Alioune Tine recalled, not without mentioning the rejection by President Macky Sall of the candidacy of Amadou Ba, his own candidate, on the subject of the upheavals that occurred last February: “If there is a parameter that has escaped Macky Sall and who turned everything upside down was Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The validation of Diomaye’s candidacy was a moment of destabilization of the regime. It was at this time that a lot of things happened with the postponement, the accusations of the Pds against the judges of the Constitutional Council.
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