Nearly eight months after the triumph of their candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in the presidential election of March 24, the African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (Pastef) are heading towards a landslide. -electoral tide during the early legislative elections held on Sunday, November 17 in a “peaceful and serene climate”, according to the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA). According to projections from Vie-Publique.sn, a citizen platform which compiles the results, the party led by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who defines himself as a left-wing pan-Africanist, was on track, on Monday, to obtain at least 129 of the 165 seats at stake in the National Assembly.
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Thus, all the large areas of voters, including Dakar, its large suburbs, Thiès, Djourbel and Mbacké come under the rule of Pastef and only four departments escape it. “A raid”comments The Observer, one of the leading daily newspapers in Senegal. In its WhatsApp loops, Pastef claims 101 of the 112 deputies elected on the departmental lists. The results of the proportional representation are still missing for the 53 deputies elected on the national lists following an electoral quotient established on a participation rate of 49.72%, according to the Senegal Vote platform.
If the contours of this victory must still be clarified and the number of deputies confirmed by the general directorate of elections by Friday, the new hegemony of Pastef on the Senegalese political field is no longer in doubt. Not since the 1988 legislative elections – won by the Socialist Party of President Abdou Diouf – has a party achieved such success without the help of a coalition.
An unprecedented electoral correction for Macky Sall
“This is a major turning point, estimates political scientist Papa Fara Diallo, lecturer at Gaston-Berger University (UGB) in Saint-Louis. This electoral triumph of the president and the Prime Minister marks a break. This puts an end to the mode of governance embodied by all presidents since independence in 1960.”
Without waiting for the official results to be announced, the main opponents admitted their defeat. Barthélemy Dias, the mayor of Dakar (head of the Samm Sa Kaddu coalition list), former Prime Minister Amadou Ba (for Jam ak Njarin) and former President Macky Sall (for Takku Wallu Senegal) greeted Pastef for his « victoire ». Just a year ago, these political figures seemed all-powerful in the face of the duo today at the head of the executive. Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko were then imprisoned. Since then, the situation has changed radically.
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