Sénégal: l'opposant Diomaye Faye se rapproche du pouvoir
Le candidat de l'opposition sénégalaise, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, pourrait être officiellement déclaré vainqueur de l'élection présidentielle d'ici la fin de la semaine, marquant ainsi une ascension remarquable et rapide vers la plus haute fonction de l'État.
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00:00 The Senegalese opposition candidate, Bassirou Diomefay, could be officially declared the
00:05 winner of the presidential election by the end of the week, thus marking a remarkable
00:09 and rapid rise to the highest office of the state.
00:12 After weeks of crises that have caused fear of a postponement of the election until December
00:16 or a power vacuum, the apparatus is used to restore to force marches the rule of law
00:20 of regulated transition that characterizes the country and to make possible a transition
00:24 in accordance with the tradition between the outgoing Maki Sallé and his successor by
00:27 next week.
00:28 It is now up to the Constitutional Council to examine any possible recourse of candidates
00:33 and to declare Mr. Fay definitively the winner, or to cancel the election, a highly unlikely
00:38 hypothesis .
00:39 "The candidates have 72 hours to seize the Council," says the Constitution.
00:44 But the Council has also decided to reduce the deadlines, probably to ensure that a
00:48 pass is made before April 2, the official date of the end of Mr. Sallé's mandate.
00:53 The Council has given all candidates until Thursday night, Friday night GMT, to
00:58 demonstrate.
00:59 It has invoked exceptional circumstances that have led to the compression of all
01:04 deadlines.
01:05 It refers to the report of the presidential election, initially scheduled for February
01:09 25 and finally set for March 24.
01:12 The update decreed at the last minute by the presidency caused a serious crisis and
01:16 raised doubts about the possibility of a pass before the expiration of his mandate.
01:20 A transfer in time imports in a country that is proud of its democratic practices
01:25 and which is considered one of the most stable in West Africa shaken by the coups d'état.
01:29 In the absence of contestation, the Council immediately proclaims the definitive results
01:34 of the "scrutiny", says the Constitution.
01:36 In the event of a recourse, the Council has, theoretically, five days to state.
01:41 Mr. Fay's opponents have recognized his victory and none have so far publicly expressed
01:46 the intention to raise objections.
01:48 The provisional results appear to make Mr. Fay's victory irrefutable while confirming
01:53 the magnitude of what appears to be a political upheaval.
01:56 Last advice.
01:58 Bassirou Diomé Fay is the first opponent to win the first round since independence
02:03 in 1960.
02:04 Never held a national election function before, he should become at the age of 44 the fifth
02:10 and youngest president of the country of 18 million inhabitants.
02:13 His arrival could announce a deep systemic re-establishment.
02:17 He presents himself as the man of the break with 12 years of dirty presidency, of the
02:22 re-establishment of a sovereignty, according to him, abroad, and of a left-wing pan-Africanism.
02:27 He makes a wish to fight corruption and injustice.
02:30 Faced with the possibility of a power holiday, the president has said several times that
02:35 he would leave on April 2, even if the Constitutional Council has left the door open for an extension
02:40 if necessary.
02:41 The Council of Ministers that he presided over on Wednesday was the last, according to the
02:46 communiqué of his services.
02:47 He asked the government to take all the measures required to prepare the files
02:53 of the passage, in view of the installation in the best conditions of the new president,
02:57 says the communiqué.
02:58 The last three years of the president's term have been marked by the downfalls of
03:02 global crises, a fierce arm of iron with the anti-system opposition and internal troubles.
03:07 Senegal experienced a new access of fever in February when Mr. Sale decreed the
03:12 update of the election.
03:13 Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested since 2021, and the letters of democratic
03:18 creed from Senegal have been examined under another day.