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Deputies elect Amadou Mame Diop to the perch in a chaotic environment

Deputies elect Amadou Mame Diop to the perch in a chaotic environment

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This Monday is a whirlwind parliamentary return for deputies elected on July 31. Parliamentarians, who met this Monday morning, elected the Speaker of the Assembly after several hours of delay and a chaotic atmosphere. It is Amadou Mame Diop from the presidential coalition Benno Bok Yakar.

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Amadou Mam Diop of the Benno Bok Yakar majority received 83 votes out of 84 voters. The deputy-mayor of Richard-Toll was elected in an atmosphere of great confusion, after the boycott of the opposition: after many hours of discussions, invectives, shouts and quarrels, the gendarmes intervened in the hemicycle.

There are two points at the origin of obstacles. The case of MPs who were earlier ministers: If the opposition did not agree, they should have resigned. After that, there was a dispute over the ballot for the post of Assembly Speaker.

The opposition does not have a single candidate

The opposition on its part did not accept a single candidate. All Ascon V coalition leaders have finally chosen Dakar Mayor Barthelemy Dias as their candidate. But Gudiawe Mayor Ahmed Aidara from the same camp is also in the fray. Finally, the Walls opted for Senegalese Mamadou Lamine Thiam.

Mamadou Lamin Diallo, a member of the Valu, lamented the lack of consensus. “ Although the question was not straightforward, it was my choice from the beginning. As per our expectations, we have not discussed this before. Unfortunately, we are in a somewhat cramped, unpredictable situation. From that moment on, contact was not enough. “However,” Mechanical Majority “, it concluded, adds the deputy after tense discussions on Monday. ” It is natural for the opposition to mark their camp “.

Among the majority, the candidacy of Amadou Mam Diop, announced on Monday morning, was a surprise. Aminata Toure, the head of the national Benno Bok Yakar list for the legislative elections and approached the post, left the hemicycle before the voting process. Amadou Meme Diop so Moustafa Niasse wins at the perch.

During the legislative elections, the presidential camp won an absolute majority of 83 deputies, thanks to Pape Diop’s rally. Opposition coalitions Yavvi Ascon V and Vallu Senegal won a total of 80 seats.

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