Once again, the Senegalese Parliament has been the focus of attention all week, between the General Policy Statement of Prime Minister Amadou Ba and the convening of the government yesterday in the Hemicycle to examine a motion of censure introduced by the parliamentary group YewwiAskanWi (Yaw).The second event is worth mentioning.It was a very good first act of a naked exposure that political entrepreneurs, who came into our public life by breaking in, are executing their plans perfectly.The democratic game can give voice to all and yesterday’s exercise rightly demonstrates that the right weapons in the wrong hands cause the worst damage.One can only be relieved to see the cameras and microphones leave the Parliament at the end of the budget session and the rejection of this motion of censure, so that serenity and civility can return to the Hemicycle.Many actors did not spare any effort by blowing on embers of chaos with every single breath.The sinking of the motion of censure against the government of Prime Minister Amadou Ba will certainly be a sign of the end of an outrageous, irresponsible, and populist way of doing politics.Nothing is more satisfying than seeing these agents of chaos break their teeth on the weight of their contradictions.The People, who makeit all possible, is taking note.LamineThiam, leader of the parliamentary group Freedom-Democracy (Wallu Senegaal), is right to consider inelegant the dynamics of Yaw to table a motion of censure unilaterally, without consulting a political formation largely representative at the national level and « established in the National Assembly since 1978 » to use his words.Idiots with decision-making tools are dangerous, but they are unstoppable if they think that they are endowed with wisdom or that their delusions would be the way to righteous salvation.When one believes oneself to be the chosen saviour of a People, going it alone ends up being the only religion, and the complacent allies end up being drunk on such prophecy.The political guerrilla operation attempted by YewwiAskanWi, through this motion of no confidence rejected by the National Assembly, has finally revealed a political project made of mistrust, unpreparedness and badgering populism.The speakers who took the floor to give voice to this « motion of no confidence » should seriously explain themselves to the writers of their notes.The discrepancy between the explanatory statement of the motion of censure and the content of the debates in the Hemicycle was only filled by the foolish arrogance of some of its defenders.The mayor of an open-minded city like Dakar, has quibbled about the pregnancy of a parliamentarian by blaming his spouse for his modest origins.What will we not have heard from the negro bourgeoise of Dakar’s salons and its self-loathing?The YewwiAskanWi coalition sees parliament as a recording chamber for the desires of an almighty executive master, wielding puppets at will.Thank God there is such hyper-presidentialisation to counteract a Mexican army of political apprentices and failed leaders who, like a rabid flock of seagulls, would like to crap on everything.We would have forgiven their rage and ardour to destroy everything if there was at least a grasp, even if inaccurate, of the texts that legislate the Parliament and some parts of our Constitution.It would take a little knowledge to pull off a piece of well-fed malice, but that’s too much to ask of them.The honourable deputy SeydouDiouf frustratingly pointed out the prerogative of « investiture » of the Prime Minister by the deputies, which was slipped into the explanatory statement of the famous motion of censure, among other argumentative errors.One cannot decide between laughing at the heresy of parliamentarians who confuse the nature of the regimes in which they evolve or the compulsion to become a sounding board for a discourse that is destructive while lacking substance.A friend of mine who is well versed in American politics tells me that it is always a joy to see populist bigots fall apart.I have just had a full measure of the satisfaction and hope that comes from the wreckage of false wheel-wreckers and sham political entrepreneurs.By Serigne Saliou DIAGNE / saliou.diagne@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Dema SANE