Africa-Press – Senegal. Professor Babacar Kanté, associate professor of public law and political science, has been appointed chairman of the political commission for national dialogue, announces a press release from Moustapha Niasse, high representative of the President of the Republic.
Mr. Kanté is honorary dean of the training and research unit in law at Gaston-Berger University in Saint-Louis (north).
He was a member of the former National Observatory of Elections and Vice-President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal.
Plusieurs commissions spécialisées doivent être constituées pour conduire le dialogue national.
Macky Sall took the initiative for this consultation between political leaders, workers’ unions, religious guides and leaders of the private sector, in a very tense climate, marked by numerous arrests in the ranks of the opposition.
Part of the opposition takes part in this consultation. This is the case of the former ruling party, the PDS, and the Taxawu Senegaal coalition, led by Khalifa Sall, a former mayor of Dakar.
But the coalition of opposition parties Yewwi Askan Wi is not taking part.
Macky Sall mentioned the possibility of an amnesty for the facts for which certain political leaders were sentenced to prison terms depriving them of their rights, those of voting and being elected in particular.
It is in this capacity that the PDS and Taxawu Senegaal agreed to take part in the national dialogue, Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall, their leaders, having been sentenced in 2015 and 2018 to prison terms depriving them of their political rights.
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