Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne has asked President Macky Sall to bring together the political class to examine the sponsorship system. He accuses certain candidates of having used the 2019 file to have sponsors.

“Hold a structured, immediate and imminent discussion to track inconsistencies and find suitable and lasting solutions for a free, peaceful, transparent and regular election.” This is the wish of Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne. The candidate declared for the 2024 Presidential election, who must regularize a certain number of sponsors, asked the Head of State to convene the political class to review the sponsorship system. “The requirement for a new examination of the sponsorship system by the Constitutional Council therefore seems essential to us, if we really want to strengthen the integrity and sincerity of the upcoming presidential election,” stated a press release from the one who accurately predicted the 5 candidates for the 2019 presidential election when sponsorship had just become widespread.

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“The current practices of the sponsorship system hideously scar our democracy,” he wrote. Boun Dionne cites the management of the electoral register as proof. “In 2019, to meet the shared objective of organizing transparent elections, the electoral file was made available to all the candidates at the time. Upgraded today, it is this same file which found itself in the hands of several candidates. If many were able to access voters’ personal data through manipulation, others, because they remained faithful to the sacrosanct principles of great public administration, systematically turned away from such criminal practices. Otherwise, how can we explain that even former members of the government, who arrived less than 5 years ago in the major quintet of the presidential election, find themselves today with the aberrant sponsorship constraints that we know in terms of external duplicates? » he asked, while recalling the complaint filed by Mimi Toure and the choice of the candidate of the Benno bokk yaakaar (Bby) Coalition, Prime Minister Amadou Ba, to use the sponsorship of local elected officials which “makes a lot of trouble.

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Furthermore, an ab initio inequality is noted from the start with the choice offered on the three types of sponsorship. The draw calls into question the very objective of sponsorship, which is representativeness. This political-legal equation requires technical and IT answers, which are within reach for those who really want to put the country’s trajectory on the path to a truly democratic Senegal,” added the former PM and candidate declared to the presidential election, Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne.

By Malick GAYE / mgaye@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Ndey T. SOSSEH