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The amnesty law passed at the end of Macky Sall’s mandate and erasing acts arising from political demonstrations between 2021 and 2024 will be reviewed, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko announced on Friday.
The head of government was in front of the deputies as part of his general political declaration awaited for months.
“A bill will be proposed to your august assembly, in the coming weeks, repealing the amnesty law passed on March 6, 2024 by the previous legislature,” Sonko underlined in his speech lasting more than 2 hours.
Asked about the use of the verb report rather than repeal, Sonko considered that it stems from the desire to extirpate from the law what should not be part of it.
When the law was adopted, Pastef party deputies voted against it on the grounds that “blood crimes”, “acts of torture” and “summary executions” should not be covered by this law.
” Sall, Minister of Justice during the adoption of the law warned of possible consequences
“You want to repeal the amnesty law so repeal it. But face the consequences” reacted the president of the opposition parliamentary group, former minister Aissata Tall Sall.
“I defended this law as Minister of Justice. I was in my role,” she noted.
These demonstrations in which Ousmane Sonko was the main actor led to more than 80 deaths, injuries and hundreds of prisoners including Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, released thanks to amnesty.
The PM returned at length to the axes of Vision Senegal 2050 that his team intends to implement.
Which will be done according to his words, through a paradigm shift in policies.
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