Aïssata Tall Sall: “Let us dissolve this Assembly and organize early legislative elections”
Aïssata Tall Sall advocates a return to the polls. The president of the Takku-Wallu Senegal parliamentary group calls on the head of state to dissolve the National Assembly and call early legislative elections. According to her, the people must be called upon to arbitrate the dispute between the Executive and the Legislature around the adoption of the 2027 budget.
The political leader justifies this request by what she considers to be a blockage of the democratic debate within the Hemicycle. She denounces in particular the refusal, according to her, to debate the nation’s budget and the use of internal regulations to limit the opposition’s speech. “When an institution refuses to debate the nation’s budget, when a majority uses the internal regulations not to enlighten but to stifle speech, then the only democratic outcome is the people,” she maintains.
Aïssata Tall Sall thus invites the President of the Republic to take his responsibilities. “Let us dissolve this Assembly and organize early legislative elections,” she says, convinced that the Senegalese must “arbitrate for themselves” the institutional crisis.
“An act of democratic health”
The president of the Takku-Wallu Senegal group presents this dissolution as a democratic response to the current impasse, and not as a political maneuver. “We do not fear the verdict of the ballot boxes. It is Pastef who fears him, because he knows that his budgetary record will not withstand the campaign. Let them take responsibility for their figures in front of the people, if they have the courage,” she declares.
While rejecting the idea of contributing to a blockage of institutions, his group also refuses to support the parliamentary majority. Me Aïssata Tall Sall thus claims a posture of “republican responsibility”: to challenge the management of power without, however, taking part in a paralysis of the country.
She believes that the President of the Republic, elected with 54% of the votes, must take the initiative to emerge from this crisis. “If this country is blocked, the first to violate its oath will not be us,” she warns.
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