the budget bill announces its share of debates

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In Senegal, the new deputies met on Friday October 14 for the opening of the single ordinary session 2022-2023. The configuration of the hemicycle is unprecedented since the legislative elections at the end of July: majority and opposition are neck and neck. After a very stormy return to Parliament last month, the session, which was very brief, passed off peacefully. The new President of the National Assembly called on the deputies to dialogue and serenity.

With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac

« After the unfortunate episode of last September 12we are watched and expected by the Senegalese people “, affirmed the president of the Assembly. Amadou Mame Diop also recorded Aminata Touré’s decision to be a non-registered deputy: ” I received from our colleague Aminata Touré her letter of resignation from the parliamentary group Benno Bokk Yaakaar. »

With this departure, the presidential majority is weakened, but ” we are serene ”, assures MP Sira Ndiaye, of the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition. « As for this resignation, we take note. I think the most important thing today is to focus on the budget. The Benno Bokk Yaakaar group remains solid, united. We hope for technical, quality and high-level debates because that is what the Senegalese expect from us. »

Focus now on the 2022-2023 budget bill. And the opposition intends to be heard, says Babacar Abba Mbaye, deputy of the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition: ” For the first time, you have a budget with revenue that we discount from gas… So it will be a debate budget, it’s going to be frontal, we’re not here to throw flowers or sweet words at each other, but that’s Senegal today. We are at a turning point, a tipping point. We’re not here to block anything. The country must change, we must tell the truth and make the right decisions. »

See you in ten days for the start of the budgetary marathon.

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