Dakar, May 9 (APS) – “Show of force”, “Mega-demonstration”, etc.: the daily newspapers received by APS on Thursday highlighted “the human tide” which has taken storming the Place de la Nation on Wednesday at the call of the opposition coalition Yewwi askan wi to protest once morest the rejection of its list of candidates in the proportional elections of July 31.
YAW leaders and their allies from the Wallu caolition organized a peaceful rally at Place de la Nation following the rejection late Friday evening of their national list for non-compliance with certain provisions of the electoral code.
”YAW submits its list of anger”, according to the daily Bës Bi Le Jour which speaks of ”strong mobilization at the Place de la Nation”. ” Resignation of Antoine Diome, once morest a 3rd term of Macky Sall, for the participation of all the lists of Yewwi Askan Wi in the Legislative… These are some of the demands of the leaders of this opposition coalition during their demonstration yesterday at the Place de l’Obelisk”, writes the newspaper.
Walfquotidien also speaks of the ”show of force of the Wallu-Yewwi inter-coalition”. ”Thing promised, thing done. The Yewwi Askan Wi coalition has won the mobilization bet”, notes Walfquotidien.
”Determined, the militants have, each time, asked for the watchword of the leaders. After taunting Macky and the leaders of the Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY) coalition, Ousmane Sonko launches: +(…) If Yewwi is blocked, there will be no elections in Senegal”, reports the daily.
”Mega-demonstration of the opposition at Place de la Nation yesterday: Yewwi opened fire on Macky”, says Sud Quotidien, which notes that Place de la Nation ”was black with a world won over to the cause of the opposition which demands the validation of the national list Yewwi Askan Wi in the legislative elections of July 31.
There was a ”strong mobilization” and ”strong speeches”, notes L’Info, which believes that ”the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition is sending a strong signal to Macky Sall”.
”Yewwi; following the first act of resistance: Radicalization or capitulation?” asks Kritik, who writes: ”A life-size test for the opposition which made many critics of the regime converge yesterday”.
According to the publication, ”if the lists rejected by the Constitutional Council constituted the frame of the response of Yewwi, the political stake goes beyond the joint questions for the opposition”.
Source A speaks of “unheard of mobilization in the history of protests at Place de l’Obélisque” and points out that “Yaw, (is) master of the street”.
”Human tide at the Place de la Nation”, poster on the front page of L’As regarding this ”mobilization of Yaw to defend its national list”.
”Exceptional human tide at the Place de la Nation”, headlines Les Echos.
Le Soleil echoed the declarations of the Head of State in the Council of Ministers. According to the newspaper, ”President Macky Sall says he is satisfied” with the execution of the missions of the public press companies.
”The President of the Republic takes this opportunity to congratulate the Director General of the RTS, as well as the agents of the public press companies, in particular those of the RTS, the Sun, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS, Télédiffusion Senegal (TDS), who accomplish, each in his field, a remarkable work which must be supported by the government”, reports the Sun, quoting the press release of the Council of Ministers.
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