President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal, Mamadou Badio Camara, participated in a political activity in France at the invitation of Laurent Fabius where he gave his point of view on the controversy of Macky Sall’s third term with its many consequences in Senegal.
Questioned by a French journalist, Badio Camara explains that “there was first the very agitated episode of the 3rd term, knowing that the constitution of Senegal in its July 2016 version, initiated by the former President of the Republic had specified the duration of the mandates of the President of the Republic, the duration 5 years and had above all added a sentence which said, no one can exercise more than two consecutive mandates. The provision seems very clear. There was a first mandate in 2012. , a second or second term in 2019. A priori, it was over, except that his supporters had waved the idea of a third term, as is often the case, that it is a man who is essential. He must stay, etc.
For the President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal, “the person concerned (Macky Sall) himself resolved the problem when a few months before the election, he solemnly declared in an announcement to the Senegalese nation that he would not be a candidate for the presidential election of 2024 and therefore, he will not seek a 3rd term.
Better, reveals President Badio Camara, “there was a request for an opinion on the possibility of a third term. The opinion was given very quickly, very quickly, on the impossibility of running for a third term. “given the constitutional provision which resolves the problem and given the fact that the president had just served two consecutive terms, this may have influenced the decision to give up this attempt at a third term,” he explains.
The President of the Constitutional Council admits to having suffered a lot of pressure, which he finds normal in the context of a presidential election. “There was a lot of tension, there was a lot of pressure. This is perhaps a bit normal since it is a presidential election. The stakes are very high and the politicians can be fierce, with everything that can contradict or thwart their project,” recognized Mamadou Badio Camara.
