2023-11-13 14:59:28
Boubacar Kamara, member of the opposition, was the first to request the postponement of the Presidential election to 2024. A request which caused a lot of reaction and pushed the former Minister of Justice, now Minister of Foreign Affairs, to react.
In a publication, Ismaila Madior Fall said that postponing the next presidential election would be very difficult. According to him, this postponement can only be done if the Constitution is revised. However historically, a postponement is unjustifiable, he said. Here is his publication.
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“Objectively and subjectively, the presidential election of February 25, 2024 cannot be postponed.
1. objectively, a postponement of the presidential election is:
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-Legally difficult to envisage, except to revise the Constitution which fixes the temporal interval for its holding. Which explains the cases of postponement of legislative and local elections, but never of a presidential one.
-Historically unjustifiable, because apart from cases of calendar slippage (the 1968 presidential election having to be held in December as in 1963, gradually shifted to January in 1973, then to February from 1978), the date of the presidential election has always been respected.
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-Materially, the causes, reasons or motives justifying a postponement are not present.
2. Subjectively, the idea does not interest the person concerned, in this case President Macky Sall. Passionate and the official winner of electoral competitions and concerned with popular anointing, the President is not seeking a half mandate or begging for legitimacy, unless (this is not the case for the moment) the superior interest of the nation does not really force him to do so. Still on the subjective register, the other interested parties, candidates with a presumption of minimal representativeness, are not demanding postponement.
The country, the President and the candidates are ready for this historic meeting with our fellow citizens. Let’s stop quibbling and listen to the voice of the people on February 25,” wrote Ismaila Madior Fall.
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