Réintégration d’Ousmane Sonko à l’Assemblée nationale : La décision du Conseil constitutionnel est tombée
The Senegalese Constitutional Council declared itself incompetent on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, to rule on the appeal filed against the integration of Ousmane Sonko into the National Assembly, thus definitively opening the parliamentary path to the Pastef leader.
On June 1, 2026, MP Tafsir Thioye and 17 other parliamentarians filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council seeking to have the May 24, 2026 decision by the Bureau of the National Assembly, which had reinstated Ousmane Sonko as an MP, declared unconstitutional. The appellants argued that the Constitutional Council had jurisdiction over the matter, given its dual role as judge of the regularity of parliamentary elections and regulator of the functioning of the institutions.
They relied in particular on articles 92 of the Constitution and 2 of organic law no. 2016-23 of 14 July 2016, as well as on several previous decisions of the constitutional court.
The arguments rejected by the Council
Meeting in session on June 17, 2026, under the interim chairmanship of Ms. Aminata Ly Ndiaye, Vice-President, the Council dismissed the applicants' arguments one by one. It first recalled that Article 92, paragraph 3 of the Constitution strictly limits its electoral jurisdiction to national elections only, and that this jurisdiction ceases upon the proclamation of the final election results. It then noted that reviewing the legality of an administrative act does not fall within its purview, except when that act directly contributes to the regularity of an ongoing electoral process. However, the contested decision of May 24, 2026, was issued well after the proclamation of the results of the early legislative elections of November 17, 2024. It concerns exclusively the integration of a former member of the Government who became a member of parliament following the cessation of his ministerial duties, and is therefore not directly related to the regularity of the electoral process. For all these reasons, the Council concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter.
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