The backstage of the election of the President of the National Assembly after the 2022 legislative elections continues to be the subject of revelations. In an interview with Jeune Afrique, the former Prime Minister and former Special Envoy, Aminata Touré, affirmed that the final choice of Amadou Mame Diop was only an alternative solution. According to Aminata Touré, le Président Macky Sall had une préférence très claire pour la présidence de l’Institution : ” The person Macky Sall would have wanted to appoint as President of the National Assembly is Mansour Faye, his own brother-in-law. I’m not sure. At the time, Mansour Faye was notably the Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Desalination. However, this plan would have been foiled because Mansour Faye “had just been beaten in his constituency, at Saint-Louis”.. Aminata Touré recalls the events that preceded her expulsion from the National Assembly (AN). She revealed that she was the only one to refuse to sign a power of attorney on behalf of Deputy Farba Ngom during the party’s retreat, intended to ensure that the deputies would vote in the direction indicated by the Head of State. On the morning of 12 September, the date of the vote, Macky Sall informed her by telephone of the choice of Amadou Mame Diop, a decision which was taken by some deputies of the coalition. That’s the last time she and the President spoke. After the vote, Aminata Touré was seated among the non-registered.
”Macky Sall wanted to play Mansour Faye”…
