After announcing his non-participation in the presidential election, President Macky Sall yesterday asked the government to stay on task, on the ground, to finalise priority projects and prepare for the 2024 presidential election in the best possible conditions.

Macky Sall is keen to complete the projects he has put in place. At yesterday’s Council of Ministers meeting, the Head of State asked « the government to stay on task, on the ground, to finalise the priority projects and prepare for the 2024 presidential election in the best possible conditions. The President of the Republic has therefore asked the Prime Minister to present, at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers, the government’s action plan for the next 6 months (July to 31 December 2023), with priority given to social and territorial equity programmes (family security grants, Pudc, Puma, Promovilles, Pacasen urban and rural, etc.) and rapid solutions to promote training, apprenticeships, entrepreneurship and youth employment ».

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The Council’s press release stresses that « the Head of State has laid particular emphasis on the need to provide optimum care for young people as a strategic priority for the Nation, by stepping up the implementation of measures to integrate young people into the labour market, based on the results of the Xëyu ndaw ñi programme and the achievements of the departmental vocational training centres and the Youth and Citizenship Centres ».

With regard to monitoring the agricultural season, he asked « the Prime Minister and the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty to take all necessary measures to speed up the deployment of agricultural inputs and equipment in the country’s agro-ecological zones. The Head of State has also called for the implementation of the National Seed Capital Replenishment Programme to be speeded up ».

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Referring back to his message to the Nation of 3 July 2023, marked by the official announcement of his decision not to take part in the presidential election of 25 February 2024, Macky Sall « recalled that this speech is an invitation to protect the Nation in its unity, its resilience and its ambition to pursue its momentum towards emergence in peace, stability, prosperity and the consolidation of a benchmark State governed by the rule of law ». The President of the Republic « urged the country’s political players and other active forces to cultivate a sense of Senegalese nationhood, to consolidate the excellence of our democratic model of society, and to speed up the structural transformation of the national economy in line with the forthcoming exploitation of the country’s oil and gas resources ».

With regard to legislative and regulatory texts, the Council examined and adopted the draft law revising the Constitution, the draft law amending the Electoral Code and the draft law amending the Penal Code, among others.

By Dialigué FAYE / dialigue@lequotidien.sn