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The Senegalese dailies sent to APA on Monday mainly report on the installation of the deputies of the fourteenth legislature and the visit of President Macky Sall to the religious city of Touba. installation of the fourteenth legislature scheduled for Monday. The battle “looks tough in the Hemicycle with at least four candidates for the chair of president”. In the presidential coalition Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY, united for the same hope), an official says that “nobody is aware of the decision taken by Macky (Sall) which will not be shared until tomorrow (today)”. Nevertheless, the newspaper notes that “the Prime Minister will be known in the next few hours”. Walf Quotidien notes several candidacies in both camps for the perch, noting that it will be “the election of all the uncertainties”. If in the presidential camp the candidacies of Aminata Touré, Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo and Aly Ngouille Ndiaye are announced, the newspaper specifies that “everything risks being played out in the second round”. Les Echos note all the same that the former Prime Minister Aminata Touré is the “favorite” to lead the National Assembly even if BBY “hides his game”. However, the divisions are more visible in the inter-coalition Yewwi Askan Wi (liberate the people) and Wallu Senegal (save Senegal) with Ahmed Aïdara, Barthélémy Dias and Lamine Thiam who “maintain their candidacy”. These three opposition leaders will “face the candidate of power”, insists Vox Populi who notes that this Monday is “the day of all uncertainties” in the National Assembly. The installation of the new deputies is also held three days before the holding of the Magal de Touba, the flagship event of the Mourid Sufi community commemorating the departure into exile in Gabon of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, founder of Mouridism. On this occasion, the Head of State Macky Sall was received on Saturday in the religious city located in the center of the country by the Caliph General Serigne Mountakha Mbacké with whom he maintains a “relationship of trust”, according to L’Observateur. “Serigne Mountakha dubs Macky Sall” who made a “courtesy visit” to the religious guide, notes Le Soleil, which notes the “renewal” of the Head of State’s pact with Touba. “Gossip is not going to influence the work I do in Touba and the rest of the country,” said Macky Sall. “When I leave power, I want to leave a prosperous Senegal. I want to leave a better Senegal than the one I inherited,” he added in Les Echos.

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