Senegal: President Bassirou Faye announces the dissolution of the National Assembly

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Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on Thursday that he was dissolving the National Assembly (parliament) and setting legislative elections for Sunday, November 17, 2024, in an address to the Nation.

“I am dissolving the National Assembly to ask the sovereign people for the institutional means that will allow me to give substance to the systemic transformation that I promised them. Today more than ever, the time has come to open a new time frame for our five-year term,” declared President Bassirou, elected on March 24, 2024, on national television.

“By virtue of the powers conferred on me by Article 87 of the Constitution, and after consulting the Constitutional Council on the correct date, the Prime Minister and the President of the National Assembly on the advisability, I dissolve the National Assembly. The date of the legislative elections is thus set for Sunday, November 17, 2024,” added the Senegalese leader.

The Head of State noted that the blockages of the last few days in the National Assembly convinced him that “the pledge of frank collaboration with the parliamentary majority (…) was an illusion”. “The latter having decided to turn away from the People to promote the cult of blockage and thus hinder the implementation of the Project on the basis of which I was elected”, he declared in this message.