After a series of so-called “economic” tours that took him to the center of the country, President Macky Sall began a second tour on Saturday, June 12, this time in the regions of Saint-Louis and Matam in the north. A stay that will be reinforced by the mobilization of these supporters who want to forget the parentheses from the riots in March last year. Riots were seen by some as a political message.
as reported from Dakar, Birahim Toure
According to the schedule for the presidency’s minutes service, the head of state, Macky Sall, will be for a week in several places in northern Senegal. Between hospital inaugurations, road visits and site visits and job launches, the President of the Republic has a marathon program in the Saint-Louis and Matam regions. A tour that comes two weeks after a premiere in the middle of the country.
The opposition and some observers of the political scene were quick to classify these trips to the head of state in the category of political tours. An election campaign in advance according to Serigne Saliou Guèye, journalist and political analyst.
“The president is mobilizing his troops in the direction of the local elections, certainly also in the direction of the legislative elections that will be held the same year, and especially also to try to possibly make credibility a third candidacy for 2024, while constitutionally, the president must be at the end of the 2024 mission. “
The local elections in Senegal are scheduled for the end of January 2022 as a test of popularity after the riots in March last year, which for many was the sum of frustrations due to the regime’s socio-economic and political choices.
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