Maïmouna Sène, ancienne députée APR, lors de sa déclaration sur le Code électoral
“Senegal is currently witnessing the systematic dismantling of its democratic gains. Faced with the authoritarian drift of the current regime, silence is complicity.” This is the conviction of former MP Maïmouna Sène, a member of the national executive secretariat of the Alliance for the Republic (APR).
In a statement entitled: "The Republic cannot be the playground of a single side," she said that, in her capacity as a former parliamentarian and custodian of a part of her country's legislative memory, she had decided to break her silence to denounce "an imposture that dare not speak its name."
According to Ms. Sène, "the current government is trying to pass off what is in reality nothing more than a settling of scores with the rule of law as a 'reform.'" The "review committee," she says, is merely a "partisan body" working exclusively under the direction of PASTEF. She believes that by excluding the opposition from the drafting process, this regime is trampling on the sacred principle of legislative debate.
“We will not allow the Electoral Code to become a tool of personal ambition. The targeted amendments to Articles L29 and L30 constitute a direct attack on the impartiality of the law,” the former elected official declared indignantly. She denounced this “attempt to transform the National Assembly into a rubber-stamp chamber serving a political ‘client,’ in contempt of established legal precedent and republican ethics.”
Ms. Sène continued: “The Minister of the Interior’s invitation for April 30, 2026, is an insult to the intelligence of the Senegalese people. One cannot engage in dialogue with a gun to one’s head or in the face of a fait accompli. To participate in this meeting is to accept playing a role in a play whose ending has already been written by the Assembly’s ‘mechanical majority.’” She called for a general mobilization of the opposition forces for “a political and civic response commensurate with this aggression.”
The former MP concluded by warning the current government: “The arrogance of a numerical majority will never replace the legitimacy of national consensus. The Republic is not spoils of war. It is our common heritage. We will not allow anyone, in the name of opportunistic populism, to dismantle the edifice that generations of patriots have built. Honor to the Republic, no to arbitrary rule!”
By Cheikh CAMARA (Correspondent in Thiès)
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