FADP 2025 : une conférence de presse « électrique » du CDEPS ce mercredi
The Council of Press Distributors and Publishers of Senegal (CDEPS) is preparing to take a stand this Wednesday at a press conference that promises to be "heated." According to Le Quotidien, which is reporting the information, the employers' organization intends to strongly denounce what it calls the "unfair and illegal distribution" of the Press Support and Development Fund (FADP) for 2025.
The public service takes "the lion's share"
At the root of this anger is a distribution deemed unbalanced and opaque. While private companies are described as being "suffocated," state-owned entities are taking the lion's share of the total 1.9 billion CFA francs allocated. According to figures reported by the newspaper of the Avenir Communication group, public entities such as RTS and APS alone received over 609 million. Added to this is the case of CESTI, whose budget jumped by "403%", from 25 million to over 125 million.
Private sector giants left out
Another point of contention: the exclusion of several large private groups. "GFM, D-Média, and Avenir Communication were not allocated funds," often for reasons of "administrative compliance." Meanwhile, the 137 selected private companies must share 686 million, barely more than the amounts allocated to public entities alone.
Opaque management and "arbitrary blocking"
Beyond the figures, the CDEPS denounces a management deemed opaque and discriminatory, pointing to "dysfunctions" and above all the "arbitrary blocking" of funds intended for the private sector for the 2024 financial year. The organization also questions the significant subsidies granted to RTS, which "already has state budgets and advertising revenues", while sometimes refusing to collaborate with private media for signal sharing.
Ultimately, the CDEPS believes that this distribution respects neither fairness nor the spirit of the Press Code. Through this statement, Mamadou Ibra Kane and his colleagues intend to directly challenge the authorities on a situation which, according to them, threatens the "survival of media pluralism in Senegal."
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