2024-02-18 17:21:57
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Apparently, the cradle of humanity has no shortage of talent. President Macky Sall has just, once again, proven it through the extension, without any valid reason, of his mandate at the head of Senegal (laughter). However, does he have the necessary means to push through this constitutional coup?
Indeed, having not been able at all, through legal quibbles, to pass the pill of the third term, President Macky Sall changed his mind. He wants, subtly, to have a third term at the head of his country differently, through the extension of his mandate. Unfortunately for him, the arguments brandished by his camp to try to justify this confiscation of power through trickery do not hold water at all. They are immediately brushed aside, particularly by political actors and civil society organizations. People unhappy with this decision continue to be heard in the streets across the country.
Completely unmasked by the Senegalese people in this other process of confiscating power through trickery, Macky Sall now wants to resort to forcing to remain at the head of Senegal. Come what may. However, will he really succeed in containing the growing discontent of the Senegalese population, determined no matter what to remove him from power one way or another?
The near future will tell us more. However, nothing is less certain. The way things look, one of three scenarios is likely to happen in the Land of Terranga, namely:
- Total chaos
In the event that President Macky Sall tries to forcefully pass his pill, despite the rejection, by the overwhelming majority of the Senegalese population, of his stated intention to confiscate power through trickery, the country will inevitably sink into an infernal situation. crisis that no one wants. Already, the macabre and controversial count of victims continues. Instability has been increasing over the days since President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone the presidential election. Senegal is on the verge of implosion. Just between the crazy days of Friday February 9 and Saturday February 10, 2023, there have already been 3 deaths.
There is no need to recall here that during the violent protest demonstrations to force President Macky Sall to abandon his plan for a third term, Senegal recorded more than twenty deaths.
- A coup d’état fomented by Macky to save his back
It is not excluded that if the pill to extend his mandate as President of the Republic does not pass at all, that President Macky Sall himself foments a putsch to punish or at least attempt to further punish the current political class in particular Ousmane Sonko who has been in his sights for a long time. This would allow him to better prepare a lackey whom he would impose at the head of Senegal at the end of a so-called presidential election organized by this soldier whom he would prepare to carry out a coup d’état against himself. A way not only for him to continue to keep control of the wealth of Senegal, but also to protect his loved ones, all immersed in the management of public affairs.
During an interview with the Associated Press, President Macky Sall said, on Friday February 9, 2024, this: “My role as president of the republic for the time I have left at the head of state is to always reach out and say to political actors, be careful, be careful, because we are not alone on the scene and if politicians are not able to agree on the essentials, other forces organized groups will do it for them and then they will all lose.” These words from the Senegalese President are eloquent and irrefutable proof that he himself does not exclude the intrusion of the army on the Senegalese political scene in the event that he does not succeed at all in quickly dissipating the dissensions between his camp and the socio-political actors.
- A military intervention to force Macky Sall to leave
To say that there has never been a coup d’état in Senegal since its independence does not mean that there will not be one at all. Everything always starts with one. Yes, obviously, Senegal is really not safe from a military coup. Even if the Senegalese army is renowned for being republican, we can no longer rule out a military coup today.
Furthermore, this conflicting position of President Macky Sall puts CEDE-YOGURT, ECOWAS I was going to say, in an extremely difficult position, which is nevertheless quick, at the slightest opportunity, to sanction countries or leaders of the West Africa who do not blow the same trumpet as the Western countries which guide the decisions of this regional institution.
All in all, the fact remains that the world has its eyes riveted today on the positions that this regional institution would take vis-à-vis the undemocratic actions of President Macky Sall. We cannot blame others for things and do the worst.
Easy MARA, Juriste