Senegal's Nationwide Meeting elected ousted prime minister Ousmane Sonko as its speaker Tuesday, Might 26.
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye fired Sonko on Friday and dissolved the federal government after months of stress.
Faye and Sonko are from the identical occasion PASTEF.
Sonko stays the chief of the occasion he based in 2014 and which controls 130 of the 165 seats in Senegal's legislative physique.
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He secured 132 votes, with no member voting in opposition to him and one abstaining, in line with the session's presiding member Ismael Diallo. Sonko has changed El Malick Ndiaye, a loyal supporter who resigned Sunday, paving the best way for the ex-prime minister's appointment.
After being put in in his new place, Sonko promised to “not use this accountability to orchestrate institutional chaos, to create an institutional disaster, or to trigger issues for the President of the Republic”.
“No member of parliament with me will use this establishment for a private vendetta”, Sonko stated, including that the home would neither be “a rubber stamp physique”.
Emphasising that parliament was a supply of checks and balances, he stated that “we are going to vote for legal guidelines which might be within the public curiosity and reject these that aren’t”.
