In Senegal, is the functioning of the National Assembly seized up? After the request on Saturday by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to the President of the National Assembly to modify the internal regulations so that Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko can make his general policy statement, no new date has yet been set.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Lea-Lisa Westerhoff
“ We are working to make things right. “, says Abdou Mbow, the president of the Benno Bokk Yakaar group, the coalition of former President Macky Sall, which has the most seats in Parliament. She adds that “ It is not up to the President of the Republic to dictate to the National Assembly what it should do “. In short, the modification of the internal regulations as requested by the head of state will be done, but not with a timetable imposed by the executive.
The same analysis is made by an observer close to the case. According to him, the public statement by Bassirou Diomaye Faye last Saturday, asking that the deputies update the internal regulations to allow the Prime Minister to make his general policy statement, has ” reblocked “the process in progress.” Benno Bokk Yakaar’s MPs, who have the majority in Parliament, are masters of the game ” analyzes this source. “ And since they are in opposition, they do not want to appear to be obeying an injunction. “, even if there is no opposition on the substance of this revision of the internal regulations.
For the time being, it is still the status quoThe President of the National Assembly must convene the bureau. The presidents of the four parliamentary groups will then have to set two dates: that of the extraordinary session to adopt the revised rules of procedure and that of the general policy statement.
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