“We are completely in tune with the head of state.” The statement was made by the spokesperson for the Alliance of Forces for Progress (Afp), Alioune Badara Diouck. Questioned by L’AS, the progressive applauds Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s announcement relating to the rationalization of political parties.
“The noted inflation of political parties, favored by an overly lax application of the texts in force, has led to excessive fragmentation and worrying inflation, detrimental to quality democratic breathing,” regretted Macky Sall’s successor, in his new year message, before announcing “consultations in the near future with the aim of bringing more readability, more transparency and more rationalization”.
“There has been an exponential evolution of political parties since the Wade regime,” confirms the newspaper’s interlocutor. When Diouf left, there were 42 political parties in 2000. Between 2000 and 2024, the number of parties increased almost 20-fold.”
Today, Diouck estimates, “we are almost at 430 political parties”. Even if “the Constitution guarantees the right of association”, this “freedom of association must be better regulated through new instruments such as the petition and the signatures of councilors to go to elections”, he suggests in remarks taken over by Seneweb.
In this wake, develops the political leader, “we must put all this back in the arsenal for the creation of a political party”: “Things are easy. It takes a general assembly of a few people and signatures to have a political party. I think we need to review the system. The criteria for creating political parties will have to be tightened. It requires the anointing of several citizens with a required number of signatures to create a political party. Distinguish between community associations and political parties. […].»
