« It is now said that he must go to the National Assembly. If the question were asked to me by the Prime Minister, I would tell him to stay at the head of the government and appoint someone else to the Assembly », argued Robert Bourgi during the RFM’s “Grand Jury” show, of which he was the guest, on Sunday November 24. According to the 79-year-old Franco-Lebanese lawyer, born in Dakar, “effective work is at the head of the Government in permanent liaison with the President of the Republic”.
Commenting on the triumph of the ruling party during the early legislative elections on November 17, Robert Bourgi spoke of a “ tsunami which only confirmed the victory of Diomaye Faye » in the presidential election last March. “ Today, in the Senegalese political space, there is only Pastef. There is only Sonko. There is only the president and all of Pastef’s allies. The others are missing “, he said.
Robert Bourgi is formal. Pastef will continue to assert itself in the political space in the coming years. “ In the five or ten years to come, I hardly see Pastef losing its strength or its influence (in the country), for the good and sole reason that the people of the old regime will become older and older. Youth, which makes up at least 65% of the Senegalese population, will become stronger. In five years, young people who are 12 years old today will be old enough to vote », he projected.
At the same time, the lawyer who plays Cassandra predicts the “complete” disappearance from the radar of those who governed before Pastef: “ You have to be realistic. I don’t see Diomaye Faye, Ousmane Sonko, disappearing. I see them there for quite a while ».
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