Ziguinchor, Dec 23 (APS) – The “Social Democrats of Senegal (SDS)”, a new political party led by the historian and environmentalist, Mohamed Lamine Manga, was officially launched on Monday in Ziguinchor (south), noted the APS.
This new party, indicated its secretary general, “will have among other missions to promote transparency, accountability, good governance, parliamentary democracy, meritocracy in accordance with the principles of social democracy”.
This training also aims to create the conditions for a competitive, sustainable and innovative agricultural policy which better integrates the concerns of farmers and breeders.
SDS also wants to establish an education system better adapted to national development issues by integrating current geopolitical realities.
According to its secretary general, the political party intends to work to multiply and modernize infrastructure, consolidate and modernize transport, establish a new health policy and a policy for the preservation of ecosystems but also for the production of forests, animal and floral reserves.
Mohamed Lamine Manga says he advocates meritocracy. “The country will never emerge with nepotism or cronyism. We are setting up a national co-construction party,” he declared.
“From 2021 to 2024, the country was paralyzed. We advocate peace. We propose the ideology and value of social democracy,” added the historian, recalling that the principles of social democracy are based on the protection of citizens from the laws of the market.
Mohamed Lamine Manga, during the launching ceremony of his party, took the opportunity to call on the current regime to maintain reforms relating, among other things, to the negotiation of oil, gas and fishing contracts in order to allow Senegal to be able to emerge. .
Mr. Manga holds a doctorate in modern and contemporary history and a secondary education aptitude certificate (CAES). He is interested in political transitions, the management of asymmetric conflicts, education and development issues in West Africa.
After teaching at the Assane Seck University in Ziguinchor and at the Djignabo high school as well as in Ghana, Mouhamed Lamine Manga lived in Oslo in Norway from 2008 to 2018 where he taught courses at the University of Oslo on management environment and governance in West Africa.
He was also a project coordinator within the UNICEF national committee before returning to Senegal. He is the author of several articles and works taught “in major universities around the world”.
“I am a fervent supporter of social democracy and democratic ecology which I intend to promote in Senegal,” he said.
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