In Senegal, the postponement of the local elections last night, Friday, April 2, was voted in the National Assembly. A new deadline has finally been set for 31 January 2022.
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as reported from Dakar,Charlotte idrac
In Senegal, the election of municipal and departmental councils was to be held before the end of March 2021. This is the third time they have been postponed. The majority relied on technical arguments, but during the heated debates the opposition condemned a “fraction” of capacity. The bill was considered during an urgent procedure, a request from the head of state.
The Minister of the Interior is sitting on the government bench. According to him, the launch is linked to organizational imperatives. Yéya Diallo, Rapporteur for the Law Committee: “Minister, it will be noted that the health crisis has caused a suspension of more than six months of the committee’s work. This repeal delayed the discussions in the case and the variations in the election process that were considered initial for the election to be held. ”
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But barely the text presented presented the opposition’s deputy Cheikh Abdou Mbacké an amendment. This requires that local elections be organized by 19 December 2021 and that the rest of the election calendar be followed. For the opposition, this launch project until 2022 hides something. She suspects the power to want to postpone the legislative election and pair them with the 2024 presidential election.
The President of the National Assembly intervenes. “Calm down, we are not in the Sandaga market.” After more than forty questions and a very long debate, a halfway date was therefore chosen: the end of January 2022. The mandate for the department and municipal council – elected in the most recent municipal election in 2014 – is extended again.
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