Dakar, Dec 26 (APS) – More than nine months after his appointment as head of government, Ousmane Sonko will make his first general policy declaration before the deputies, an exercise supposed to give the indications, orientations and priorities of the actions called to be implemented for the socio-economic development of the country.
This declaration comes more than two months after the presentation of the new public policy framework called “Senegal 2050: National Transformation Agenda”.
The program includes a National Development Strategy (NDS) to be implemented between 2025 and 2029. ”The Senegalese authorities therefore estimate that they need around 18,500 billion francs to finance this five-year strategy.
There is no doubt that the implementation of the SND will occupy a prominent place in the general policy declaration, ”a constitutional obligation of the Prime Minister, who, once elected, must make it to the National Assembly”, according to sociologist Elimane Haby Kane, president of Think Thank Legs Africa.
”It is the solemn moment during which the Prime Minister submits to the representatives of the people the policy he intends to implement, while he is still the depositary of the confidence of the President of the Republic who has the prerogative to define the politics of the Nation,” he explained to the APS.
The aim, he stressed, is to enable citizens to better understand the general orientations of public policies and the flagship programs and projects as well as the governance approach.
Mr. Kane, whose structure is involved in public policies and good governance, speaks of an exercise intended to promote “readability of the government’s public action” led by the Prime Minister. In this, the DPG takes on an “eminently political” character.
During the DPG, the Prime Minister can request a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, but can also be the subject of a motion of censure by the deputies to bring down the government he leads, noted Elimane Haby Kane .
He presents the DPG as an “important document for any public policy analyst and observer of the management of public affairs. (…). It can also make it possible to establish the reference situation for the state of the country.
Historian and teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Education and Training (Fastef. ex ENS), Mamadou Yéro Baldé presents the DPG as a “solemn and decisive moment in the life of a government and the Republic.”
According to him, it is a document that should serve to translate “the main directions of the government, the main reforms and measures to be put in place”.
The doctor in Modern and Contemporary History did not fail to compare the exercise of the General Policy Declaration to the “Discourse on Method”, in reference to this title of this major text of the philosophy of René Descartes in the 17th century.
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