By RFIPosted 18-01-2019Modified on 18-01-2019 at 17:18
In Senegal, chess is increasing for Khalifa Sall. His sentence of five years in prison was confirmed by the Supreme Court, he filed this Thursday his last appeal. His candidacy for the presidential election was rejected by the Constitutional Council and the issue should be definitively settled by Sunday. By decree, President Macky Sall had already dismissed him as mayor of Dakar. A new step, Khalifa Sall learned from the press that he was no longer an MP.
The de-listing request was visibly made in secret, it comes from the top of the state. Only one newspaper in the place, L'As , today publishes information leaked late Thursday night. The daily explains that it is the custody of the Seals, Ismaïla Madior Fall, who seized on January 11 last the president of the National Assembly asking him to apply the law following the sentence on appeal of Khalifa Sall at five years from prison.
Moustapha Niasse gathered the Bureau of the Assembly on Thursday. The removal of Khalifa Sall was quickly recorded, but the principal concerned " has not been officially informed of this decision, " said one of his advisers, who continues " everything is done to silence Khalifa Sall, we believe that the may seek to evacuate him from the Dakar prison, to remove him before the presidential election . "
With his removal from the National Assembly, Khalifa Sall no longer exercises any mandate as elected representative.
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