Cape Metropolis — Former President of Senegal, Macky Sall, is a candidate in the legislative elections on November 17 and is on the head of the nationwide list for the coalition Takku Wallu Sénégal.
The coalition modified into formed around his event, the Alliance for the Republic and the Senegalese Democratic Occasion, which is the political event of his predecessor Abdoulaye Wade.
The Senegalese Press Company in Dakar experiences that the used president wrote a letter to his supporters and Senegalese electorate, in which the chief of the Alliance for the Republic (APR), provides his causes for accepting the coalition nomination. Sall’s letter begins by painting a “dark picture” of the nation’s converse, eight months after his 12-year term as president ended.
“With the support of men and women of value, dedicated and competent, I left a country resolutely established on the trajectory of emergence, with one of the rare economies in the world to display a positive growth rate after the devastating impact of COVID-19, and despite the collateral effects of a major war,” wrote Macky Sall.
Sall writes that he left a aloof nation, with an amnesty law adopted in a spirit of forgiveness and nationwide reconciliation after three years of unfavorable violence, and one the assign “public governance and legal security inspire confidence conducive to investment that generates growth and employment”.
“Eight months later,” Sall writes, “and twice in the space of a few weeks, our country’s sovereign rating has been downgraded by two rating agencies, following untimely, slanderous and unfounded assertions, the last of which, even more grotesque, which concerns an alleged bank account with a thousand billion FCFA was quickly denied by banking professionals and could not fool anyone.”
His resolution to lead the coalition is “mobilization aimed at stopping the growing dangers in the country”.
Meanwhile, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye assured voters that the upcoming vote on November 17 will be transparent and blooming, calling on all contributors to exercise “restraint”. Faye dissolved Parliament appropriate six months after taking office, and after saying that working with the meeting had grown complicated after contributors refused to begin discussions on the Funds law and rejected efforts to dissolve wasteful direct institutions. Faye’s announcement followed earlier promises by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to originate a huge-ranging probe into govt corruption.
