Published on : 22/08/2022 – 11:21
Critic of France and Macky Sall and support of Mali, the main Senegalese opponent Ousmane Sonko is deploying a strategy of conquest to try to seduce voters with a view to the presidential election of 2024.
The president of the Le Pastef party announced his candidacy last Thursday in the wake of the legislative of July 31, which saw the presidential camp lose the absolute majority in Parliament. His detractors denounce him as a populist, not hesitating to exploit a sovereignist discourse to get elected. What is it really ?
« Two tables »
« Il [Ousmane Sonko] plays on two tables. There is the internal discourse, of course castigating the governance of the majority, by criticizing political excesses. A strong speech that mobilized a good number of citizens, especially from the middle class and then the young people who supported him to obtain results in the legislative elections. And another speech which is intended for Africa, because it plays on Pan-Africanism, on solidarity with other African countries”, explains Moussa Diaw, teacher-researcher in political science at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis.
« A candidate to be taken seriously »
« This is why he sent a message of support for the president of the transition in Mali, Assimi Goïta, in this ordeal once morest jihadism and also in his fight once morest France. And it is in this context that he castigates certain collusions between France and Senegal. It requires a certain economic independence for this. He has support. He is a candidate to be taken seriously. And he also warns Macky Sall: will he lose the connivance with France to prevent him from running in the presidential elections of 2024 ”.