Senegal: Wrestling Arm between Wade and Idrissa Seck

By on April 25, 2011
The former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, and former ally of President Abdoulaye Wade, has reportedly suggested that the Article 27 of the Senegalese Constitution is stating that the term of the president is 7 years renewable only once.

This provision could be revised only by a referendum. For this statement, Idrissa Seck has become again the rival of President Wade and has definitely broken the reconciliation pact adopted in January 2009. For that,  Idrissa Seck was again excluded from the PDS, the Senegalese Democratic Party, in power, because of his  “divisive approach”. His case was discussed at a meeting of the party at the presidential palace in Dakar, attended by President Wade, but not by Idrissa Seck.  The explanation given by the president of the commission of discipline within the PDS, Abdoulaye Faye, is that Idrissa Seck has made a bid against a third mandate of Wade to the presidential in 2012. That declaration goes in opposition with cons-stream position and the flow unanimously released by the PDS, which was to say   that Mr. Abdoulaye Wade was the candidate for 2012 presidential election for the party. He chose to say otherwise, and in doing so, he is sowing confusion in the minds by disseminating factionalist actions, constituting a serious matter.

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