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Macky Sall

Date of Birth: 11 December 1961
Place of Birth: Fatick, Senegal


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Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate

The crunch came with a breakdown in relations between the confrontational Sonko and the outgoing legislative majority loyal to former head of state Macky Sall and his Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...

Former president Macky Sall – now operating from Marrakech – had clearly been expecting the dissolution and on 3 September he made a farewell address to his parliamentary supporters...


Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll

In contrast his opponents in the Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition led by Macky Sall who was president until earlier this year are only just short of an overall majority on 82 with three years of the current National Assembly still to run...

Criticism of Macky Sall-era cronyism corruption and politicisation was for years a staple of Pastef rhetoric...


Faye's diplomatic rounds

Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko hosting the veteran French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Dakar launched a diatribe against France and the EU complaining that they failed to speak out against former President Macky Sall's crackdown on dissent (AC Vol 65 No 4 Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem)...


Faye's victory shakes up the region

President Macky Sall has been a close ally to Paris...

In 2012 it was the run-off ballot that delivered victory for Macky Sall even though he was then the popular hero challenging an ageing President Abdoulaye Wade who had persuaded the Constitutional Council to let him seek a third term...

Unpopular Equally important was the scale of Senegalese citizens' fury at the way Macky Sall was eroding the country's democratic values and civic freedoms and presiding over the politicisation of the judiciary...

The deaths of at least 60 protestors in street clashes with the security forces and the jailing of hundreds of mostly young people over street protests or even Facebook posts deepened disenchantment with Macky Sall even among many of the urban middle class who were benefiting most from economic growth (AC Vol 65 No 4 Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem)...

Corruption was another grievance with deep resentment at the president's appointment of his brother Aliou – facing allegations over contentious oil dealings – to head a state investment fund (AC Vol 63 No 11 Macky Sall faces the third-term curse)...

But that did not defuse anger towards Macky Sall...

He might hope to tempt some members of Macky Sall's now demoralised BBY alliance...

Ever since Sonko's strong third place in the 2019 presidential election the anti-corruption campaigner had been regarded as the most potent threat to Macky Sall's hopes of winning a third term...

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Team Anti-Système takes over the system

The mass support that had comfortably carried Macky Sall to a second term five years ago was hollowed out by anger at worsening corruption and the erosion of democratic rights since 2019...


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