The crisis in the ruling coalition: MEP Pastef Fatou Cissé Goudiaby addresses an open letter to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and demands the immediate dismissal of the Minister of the Environment, Dr El Hadji Abdourahmane Diouf, whom she describes as “a minister not welcome in our government”. She accuses him of “suspicions of embezzlement” and affirms that he can no longer remain under the authority of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, whom he would politically defy. In her letter, she writes: “Dr El Hadji Abdourahmane DIOUF, ministre non grata dans notre gouvernement, parce que il doit répondre des soupçons de détournement, parce que ku kheekh sunu Leader politique Ousmane SONKO, ma kheekh laa. He has been appointed by the President of the French Republic to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr. Diouf has no longer a place alongside us, in our project of managing Senegal; et surtout par respect à l’homme, the Prime Minister can no longer continue to be his hierarchical superior while he challenges him politically. I’m not sure. She attached to this ultimatum a threat of parliamentary sanction: “On Tuesday 11 November, I will abstain from voting on the budget of the Ministry of the Environment if it is not dismissed or resigned. And I will vote against this budget in plenary in December, if it is still in the post. I’m not sure.
Government: the deputy Fatou Cissé Goudiaby de Pastef demands the dismissal of the minister Diouf and threatens to block his budget
