Published on : 25/07/2022 – 03:03
The campaign for the July 31 legislative elections continues in Senegal. Among the eight competing formations is the recent coalition AAR Senegal, Alternative for a Breaking Assembly, created at the end of April. Its national list is led by Thierno Alassane Sall. The former minister of President Macky Sall now defends an “opposition of ideas”.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac
His supporters do not fail to recall an episode: when Thierno Alassane Sall – nicknamed “TAS” – was Minister of Energy in 2017, he refused to sign an oil and gas exploration contract with the French group Total, that he judged contrary to the interests of Senegal “. He will come back to this in a book entitled The protocol of the Élysée. He then left the government, the APR the presidential party, and launched his own movement: The Republic of Values. “ He is a true patriot, he has proven himself, he places ethics at the heart of his action. says a member of the coalition.
In its charter, AAR Senegal presents itself as an opposition ” peaceful » and proposals, towards « a new political path ».
But faced with a so-called radical opposition, that of the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition of Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall, the engineer by training ” hard to be heard “says an observer of political life:” too technocratic », « too Cartesian, even rigid ». « We were the first to present a program and it is the strongest responds a supporter. The legislative elections will be a first test for AAR Senegal, before the presidential election of 2024.