Former candidate Amadou Ba publishes article titled "New Tasks"

2024-06-21 22:40:37

new obligations
Creator: Amadou BA Former Presidential Election Candidate
Senegalese,
Senegalese,
My expensive compatriots,
Senegal is a land of openness, tolerance and freedom, and all its conferences have left an indelible mark of progress on historical past. All of the crises we now have skilled have demonstrated our nation’s immense capacity to beat challenges, flip obstacles into alternatives, and preserve a trajectory of peace and unity. Every stage of our political and social historical past has strengthened the frequent need of every of us to protect Senegal as a real republic and a mannequin of democracy.

The final presidential election additional demonstrated the political capability of our folks to keep up stability and draw crimson traces, whereas the establishments of the Republic stay the guarantor of their inviolability.

In gentle of the painful occasions of March 2021 and June 2023, and having discovered the teachings of the final presidential election, our new accountability is to declare violence out of date within the decision of political disputes. Due to this fact, we agree that session and dialogue have to be the primary rules and guidelines of forward-looking battle administration to any extent further.

We’re satisfied that now we should look firmly to the longer term with a brand new sense of accountability. We’re even destined to do that if we don’t need to give the demons of division and violence any probability of exposing us to new risks when we now have an actual probability of political and financial rise.

Due to this fact, our new accountability is to make the political house a peaceable place, a framework for the confrontation of concepts, defining methods, tasks and plans with the only goal of making a balanced society. A society that gives each citizen with the means to reside a contented life by means of energetic participation in neighborhood life.

Our new accountability is to embody the democratic and republican opposition. The actions and actions of the opposition are supported by a political ethic that’s primarily involved with the life of each Senegalese.

Our nation’s structure clearly stipulates that pure assets belong to the folks. Confronted with this crucial, it’s our obligation to do the whole lot doable to remodel what’s in the present day thought of a typical good from precept right into a actuality within the life of each citizen.

To attain this purpose, Senegal should set an instance of high quality public providers in order that meals safety, well being, schooling, water and electrical energy, employment, housing and residing surroundings, safety, mobility, tradition, communications, surroundings are not luxuries however Minimal requirements backed by the inalienable rights of each citizen.

Senegal has all of the assets to satisfy this problem, by means of the entrepreneurial tradition of its youth, by means of the vitality and dedication of its ladies, by means of the knowledge and experience of its inside and diaspora sons, by means of its strong institutional constructions and its Credibility on the worldwide stage.

Along with this, the equality of all residents earlier than the legislation, respect for freedoms, particularly freedom of expression, freedom of group and freedom of demonstration inside the framework of republican legal guidelines, and the protection of everybody and everybody’s bodily and psychological integrity represent the idea for reaching this purpose. situation.

New obligations require us to make extra sacrifices, in order that our nationwide historical past is not a easy normal, not an ornamental luxurious, however the everlasting taste of our standing nation.

We should do that as creatively daring heirs to the heroes of our nation’s historical past who resisted the barbarities of slavery and colonialism, as descendants of true religious authority, and as bearers of a cultural resistance worthy of our common recognition in the present day. , as a treasure trove of genius. Allow us to not neglect that, removed from it, mental notoriety marks the excellence of our universities.

We firmly consider that we should and might shoulder the burden of this new accountability as a result of we really feel blessed and enthusiastic. If we’re assured of success, it’s as a result of we mobilize our vitality in our each day work and know that we will depend on the genius of our folks and on their efficient participation in reaching our objectives. As a result of politics attracts its raison d’être, power, and energy from the folks.

Because of this the folks of Senegal are absolutely the horizon of our religion, the rationale why we bear this new accountability with nice weight and satisfaction, and the indestructible basis of our hope.

We all know that persons are the nation’s most important wealth. He’s its flesh and blood. That is its breath of life and creativity. We’re grateful to the sovereign Senegalese folks, who’re the one supply of all legitimacy.

It’s on the idea of this republican and democratic supreme, and with new obligations, that we defend the Republic, its rules and values. Its mission of making certain equality amongst residents has our full assist, simply as we firmly adhere to its regulatory dimension, which gives each citizen the chance to flee the vicious cycle of want.
We defend democracy, its rules and values. Respect the establishment. Democracy is a system of wholesome competitors by which the only arbiter of proposed concepts and tasks is the sovereign folks.

We defend the peace, stability and safety of our residents and our nation. These are the idea for the event and well-being of the folks. They aren’t the only prerogative of the nation, however contain every of us.

We defend the Pan-African spirit, understood because the legacy of our predecessors and as a optimistic mission that Africa is regularly constructing and imposing itself as a central pressure within the selections that form the world.

I name on everybody to meet in good religion our new accountability to weave collectively new trajectories, new dynamics, new methods of doing politics by increasing the house for session, dialogue, debate of concepts, plans and actions. Approach.

It’s to this battle to determine and lead this new accountability that we invite all our compatriots right here and within the diaspora, all our associates and all the highest executives of our nation.

I commit this, with none doable concession, to you, as a result of I do know I can depend on all of you to guide this combat.

Collectively we are going to construct a brand new framework within the coming weeks that may resolutely carry new instructions and new political impetus.

Lengthy reside the Republic!
Lengthy reside Senegal!