This Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the M23 or June 23 movement in Senegal. This coalition of political parties and civil society organizations created in 2011 was mobilized against President Abdoulaye Wade’s candidacy for a third term in 2012. Ten years later, the movement’s legacy is disputed.
as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idrac
“Do not touch my constitution” was one of the slogans of the June 23 movement. After monster demonstrations and before the popular uprising, Abdoulaye Wade in extremism gave up his project of constitutional reform. In March 2012, Macky Sall won the presidential election.
Ten years later, it is a battle for inheritance. An event will be organized by actors from the Place de la Nation era. At the same time, a further mobilization is planned at the call of the M2D, the movement for the defense of democracy created in March, a coalition that supports opponent Ousmane Sonko, prosecuted in a case of rape.
At the head of the 2011 protest, Me El Hadj Diouf, leader of the Labor Party today, accuses Ousmane Sonko of wanting to “monopolize” the June 23 movement. For its part, the organization Y’en a Marre, even in the heart of the protest against Abdoulaye Wade, rejected the invitation “what remains of the M23, controlled by those who misled the spirit of June 23”.
While President Macky Sall entertains vague about his ambitions in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Y’en a Marre, a member of M2D, resumes on Wednesday one of the slogans ten years ago: “no to a third candidacy.” The celebration in scattered order is planned in Dakar on Wednesday, June 23.
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