Member of the presidential movement, Me Moussa Diop is against the dismissal of Mayor Barthélemy Dias. The president of the Generational Alternative party (Ag/Jotna) gives the reasons by criticizing the procedure used to achieve this revocation.By Amadou MBODJI –
Me Moussa Diop is against the dismissal of Mayor Barthélemy Dias. The president of the Generational Alternative party (Ag/Jotna) gives the reasons for his position. He believes that this revocation of the head of the list of “Sam sa kaddu” in the last legislative elections was made possible by “an instrumentalization of the administration” coupled with a “procedural defect”.
“When the truth is there, you have to tell it or let it say itself.
That's the breakup. Now, using the administration which comes to take certain decisions to dismiss a mayor while, in terms of form, when we have to dismiss a mayor, especially a deputy, article 198 of the Electoral Code provides that it is imperative to refer the matter to the Constitutional Council. In this Dias affair, the Constitutional Council, I weigh my words carefully, does not seem to have been seized because I do not have the proof. And the Constitutional Council should be seized by the Office of the National Assembly, the President of the Republic or a group of deputies,” he asserts in front of the journalist Babacar Fall, during the program “Le Grand Jury” on the Rfm.
Speaking about the request from the Minister of Justice placed on the table of the National Assembly, Me Moussa Diop maintains that this letter does not have “legal value to remove Barthélemy Dias from the National Assembly”.
He claims that the President of the National Assembly, El Malick Ndiaye, “should not have carried out” this request. “This is what Article 198 provides, I say by interpretation, but textually. The President of Parliament should not have and does not even have the authority to refer the matter to the Constitutional Council.
Only the Constitutional Council, the Office of the National Assembly, a group of deputies in accordance with the Internal Regulations of the National Assembly or the President of the Republic can refer the matter. Final point.
The name of the President of the National Assembly does not appear there. I think that on this point, the Constitutional Council will decide,” adds Me Diop.
The latter notes that article 198 of the Electoral Code says: “The forfeiture provided for by article Lo.162 of this code is noted by the Constitutional Council at the request of the Office of the National Assembly, of a group of deputies , in accordance with the Internal Regulations of the National Assembly, or of the President of the Republic. In addition, in the event of a final conviction after the election, the forfeiture is noted, in the same manner, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office.”
Legislative: the sidelining of allies by Sonko denounced
Looking back at the last legislative elections with the large victory of Pastef's list, Me Diop criticizes Ousmane Sonko's approach when it came to choosing his allies. This is how he accuses the head of the Pastef list of having pushed aside his allies from the “Diomaye President” Coalition to ally himself with his former “enemies” from the Apr. “What was done was Ousmane Sonko who chose to put aside those who supported him during the victory of March 24, to seek out those who had opposed his candidacy and had done so. imprison, I’m talking about transhumants,” said the former CEO of Dakar Dem Dikk (Ddd).
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