Senegal: the union of the opposition, a concrete alliance or a simple display?
Supporters of Karim Wade (illustrative image).
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Provisional release was granted Wednesday March 24 to Guy Marius Sagna, Amadou Clédor Sène or Assane Diouf, activists arrested a month ago in particular for "organizing an insurrectionary movement".
These releases come in the context of legal proceedings against Ousmane Sonko, the opponent accused of rape by an employee of a massage parlor.
With this affair, the opposition regained media ground.
She pleads for "unity" against the regime of President Macky Sall.
Concrete alliances or wishful thinking?
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Charlotte Idrac
Little audible in recent months, the Senegalese opposition is finding color.
Several personalities like Khalifa Sall, the former mayor of Dakar, have shown their
support for Ousmane Sonko
and called for a "common front" of the opposition.
The PDS, the party of Karim Wade, son of the former president, exiled in Qatar, has returned to the National Resistance Front.
The FRN, a collective of opposition parties, is working on a “framework of unity of action”.
Assane Ba, member of the PDS steering committee, explains:
“
It's about working with other democratic, social and political forces to fight Macky Sall's regime.
And then, if possible, to formalize electoral coalitions.
We are in the process of drawing up the rules of procedure, on social, political, economic questions ... We have created an ad hoc committee, and in principle next Saturday, this committee should give us the first 'draft' of this program.
"
"Alliances are no longer made at the level of ideologies, but in a circumstantial way"
A recomposition of the political landscape is therefore underway.
But could a motley coalition hold out?
Professor Papa Ogo Seck, professor and researcher at Gaston Berger University, believes this is possible: “
If they agree on the essentials, that is to say to solve the most urgent problems, linked to economic rights. and social, linked to the question of freedoms and the construction of a rule of law, they can identify common means and take common actions, despite their different convictions.
Because in Senegal, we have seen that alliances are no longer made at the level of ideologies, but above all on a circumstantial basis.
"
For its part, the
majority
Benno Bokk Yakaar
coalition
is also in the process of remobilizing its troops, with the organization of meetings and meetings.
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