Africa-Press – Senegal. Le président de la République a confirmé samedi la volonté du gouvernement de faire amnistier les faits pour lesquels plusieurs opposants, notamment Khalifa Sall et Karim Wade, ont été privés de leurs droits de voter et d’être éligibles.
« It is in their interest to come and discuss with the majority. We shouldn’t just be discussing eligibility issues, » Macky Sall said of his outstretched hand to the opposition and the amnesty bill of facts about some political leaders.
Speaking in Wolof as a guest on the RFM private radio program « Yoon Wi », he named Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade as potential beneficiaries, along with « others », of this development project. amnesty to restore their voting rights and to be eligible.
Khalifa Sall, ancien maire de Dakar, et l’ancien ministre Karim Wade ont été respectivement condamnés à cinq et six ans de prison pour des faits d’escroquerie sur les deniers publics et d’enrichissement illicite.
For this reason, the Constitutional Council had invalidated the candidacies for the 2019 presidential election of these two opponents.
Still according to Macky Sall, no mediation is underway to ease the tense relations that exist between him and part of the opposition, the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition in particular, led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall.
« I am not aware of any mediation. I have called for dialogue but I am not aware of any mediation, » he said.
The President of the Republic also declared that he had never concluded an alliance with Idrissa Seck for the presidential election of February 2024.
The president of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) announced this Saturday that he will submit, on Monday, to Macky Sall, his letter of resignation from the presidency of the said institution.
During this week, members of the CESE office blocked its operation to make Idrissa Seck pay for declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election without warning his allies of Benno Bokk Yaakaar and for having said that Macky Sall has no right to enter the race.
The Head of State confirmed to the RFM the rupture of their alliance sealed in 2020.
He praised his wife’s commitment alongside sick people, to whom she helps with the Servir le Sénégal foundation.
Marième Faye Sall does not exercise any official function at his side, however, he said. « The First Lady was part of the organization chart of the Presidency of the Republic. I was the one who put an end to that, » he said.
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