This Friday, the official results of the legislative elections will be revealed. In the meantime, trends show a large victory for the regime in place, PASTEF. Former Minister of State, Ismaila Madior Fall shared an analysis on this tidal wave of the coalition led by Ousmane Sonko during the last election.
His full contribution:
I thank the populations of the 11 communes of the Rufisque department for their warm welcome during the electoral campaign.
I extend my congratulations to the Pastef list. If she triumphed, it was the Senegalese people who won.
These results inspire three (3) reflections in me:
1. In whatever way the People want, the main thing is that they want. The Senegalese people have, in consistency and continuity from March 24, chosen the confluence of the parliamentary and presidential majorities. This conservative reflex of political stability should, thanks to the harmonization (at 5 years) of the duration of the mandates of the President and the deputies, be institutionalized by the rearrangement of the Republican calendar for the organization of the presidential and legislative elections. concomitantly (as was the case from 1963 to 1988) or a few days apart. We would have saved 7 months of political uncertainty and electoral tension.
2. The personal dimension of the Prime Minister on the results induces a change in the functioning of the political regime. Unpublished: the one who is favored by the voters is not at the head of the supreme judiciary. In a presidential regime, this is an incongruity to be urgently corrected by combining the recipes of constitutional engineering and the art of governing. Harmony within the executive and the political stability of the country are at stake. We recall that Senegal has a bi-representative regime where the presidential vote and the legislative vote are of equal legitimizing dignity for power.
3. Shouldn’t the judicial disqualification of one of the favorite candidates in the presidential election of March 2024, and its consequences on the functioning of the political regime, lead us, for the future of our democracy, to take inspiration from the case law of a few weeks ago from the Supreme Court of the United States ordering the suspension of legal proceedings against candidates until after the presidential election? This question opens up, as civil society invites, a prospect of consensual refinement of the conditions of eligibility for the Presidency.
A country must be taught by its own history and sometimes that of other countries.
May God watch over Senegal.
Ismaila Madior Fall
Professor of public law at Cheikh Anta Diop University
Former Minister of State
Auteur: Seneweb-News – Seneweb.com
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