More than 80 Bills Ready for the New Legislature

With the overwhelming victory of PASTEF in the legislative elections of November 17, the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye can now roll out his reform program.

Cheikh Oumar Diagne, director of general resources of the presidency, announced in this regard that more than 80 bills are ready to be submitted to the National Assembly to drive a systemic transformation of Senegal.
According to him, these projects, which were pending the current legislature, are now ready to be presented as soon as the deputies of the new majority, resulting from the legislative elections of November 17, are installed, informs LeSoleil-Digital.

In a media release on the Deep Debate program on 2stv on November 20, 2024, Cheikh Oumar Diagne made the announcement: “There are more than eighty (80) bills that are already ready. All that was missing was a serious legislature which put forward the interests of Senegal and the Senegalese which prevented its passage in the National Assembly.
He added that these bills are now ready to be submitted to this 15th legislature which will be installed in the coming days. “Things are going to be rainy in the next few days. It is enough to read the press releases from the Council of Ministers, the examinations of bills proposed by the ministers to understand that everything is already ready. »

Following PASTEF’s large victory in the legislative elections of November 17, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye now has a comfortable majority in the National Assembly to roll out his reform program. The presidential party now has an absolute majority to make the necessary ruptures promised to the Senegalese, the same source tells us.

Cheikh Oumar Diagne insisted that “the coming weeks will be really intense for the new deputies”. “We have our work cut out for us. There are emergencies in this country and we have no time to waste. », he adds, calling on the Senegalese to support the government.