“It is inconceivable that the Senegalese continue to accommodate the declarations of incompetence of the Constitutional Council. Therefore, the reform can no longer wait. It is a matter of urgency. In the first place, it is clear that the reform of the Constitution was more necessary and more urgent than the constitutional revision which abolished the HCCT and the EESC. In truth, it is only the law abrogating the amnesty law that can compete with this reform. Before the Conseil constitutionnel, the State even raised the argument of the incompetence of the court to decide the disputes relating to the loss of a deputy’s mandate and the attribution of the post of 8th Vice-President of the National Assembly. It is very lax of our part, nous autres politiques, to denounce the repeated decisions of incompetence of the constitutional judges while it is the politician who can and must modify the law in order to give a broad competence to the Conseil. The Council’s incompetence is not only due to the lack of temerity of the judges; it is above all because the law has given it only limited powers. It will thus be sufficient to include in the law the possibility for the latter to judge the constitutionality of laws and to act as regulators of the functioning of institutions and the activity of public authorities.
Incompetence of the Constitutional Council: Moussa Tine calls on Diomaye and Sonko to reform the institution
