In a relevant analysis, Seydina Oumar Touré, Director General of the ASP, compares the ideals and methods of Donald Trump to Senegal’s PASTEF. According to him, beyond stereotypes, these two political figures share a common commitment: that of denouncing a bureaucracy disconnected from the people and defending a policy close to the daily realities of citizens, whether they are farmers or shepherds.
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“In terms of ideals and political modus operandi, Donald TRUMP embodies the PASTEF of the USA.
Indeed, beyond the more or less subjective assessments of which he is the subject, this man is close to the PASTEF of Senegal in several respects.
In fact, TRUMP highlights a set of rules and practices crystallized in the deepest bureaucracy. He exposes them to broad daylight and calls them into question, in the eyes of the people who alone are sovereign.
The more or less comparative study of these two political offers leads us to the following conclusion: being a Statesman is not limited to diplomas and even less to dress and discursive codes.
Being a Statesman means knowing how to bear the suffering of your people, working hard for their development and being personally willing to pay the price for collective well-being.
This just goes to say that the farmer or my shepherd relative in the village can prove to be more patriotic than some of the high-ups in the bureaucracy that we have known in the past; who continue, today, to plunder our property and because of whom the people still suffer.
Thus, the average citizen is called, like any citizen, to claim and assume with dignity the status of Statesman, previously reserved. Rightly so, because he knows the misery of the common people and has the full measure of their aspirations. The examples are numerous (Lula, Lech Valesa…)”
