2024-02-04 10:45:00
The Senegalese intellectual Felwine Sarr took a position in a text entitled “Democratic confiscation” following President Macky Sall, in his speech to the nation, declared having issued a decree repealing the decree of November 26, 2023 setting the presidential election for February 25 2024.
In extenso, his entire statement!
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“We felt the blow coming. But we didn’t dare believe it, because the string seemed too big to us. But he is there, committed to our democracy, to our sacrosanct principles of collective life, to our old tradition of respecting the electoral calendar with regard to the presidential elections in Senegal. After dissolving the main opposition party, imprisoning its leaders, imprisoning more than a thousand citizens for expressing their opinions, desecrating our institutions, the President of the Republic has felt the pulse of public opinion and fearing a defeat for his side in the presidential elections, issues a decree to cancel/postpone the presidential elections.
For months the Senegalese have endured political, social and institutional injustice, the degradation of their institutions, bullying, prison and police violence, mourned their dead who fell during demonstrations, or disappeared into the seas on the way to illegal immigration. For months, they told themselves that they should not respond to the trap of chaos that was being set for them, by going out into the streets, but that they should wait patiently for the day of the vote, to express their will ; find their country, put it back on track, restore their democracy, the quality of their institutions and the individuals who embody them, reclaim their country and cure it of the ills that plague it.
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And now the President of the Republic, a single man among the 18 million of us, has just confiscated the possibility given by the Constitution to the people to express their will on a date fixed and known in advance. These people who have demonstrated their attachment to democratic principles, to their desire for the peaceful transmission of power, awaited these elections as a possibility of liberation and restoration of their collective breathing. Here he is taken hostage and his breathing is hampered. It is up to him to unhinder it. All the active forces of the nation must organize, act and obtain the restoration of the Republican calendar! »
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