The Socialist Party (PS) expressed, on Thursday 10 July, its “deep concern” at what it considers to be the authoritarian drift of the new regime in place. In a communiqué, the PS condemns the “numerous attempts of intimidation exercised daily” against opinion leaders, press professionals and columnists. The party cites in particular the repeated summonses and arrests for reasons deemed fallacious targeting Abdou Guer, Moustapha Diakhaté, Bachir Fofana, as well as the columnist Badara Gadiaga. According to the PS, these acts translate “the manifest will of the new power to build up democratic freedoms”.. The communiqué also reflects on the attitude of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, whom he accuses of “violent verbal attacks against the magistrature” after a decision of the Supreme Court in a private case. For the Socialist Party, this reaction illustrates “a veritable tendency of authoritarianism to which the Senegalese have become accustomed since their arrival at the business”. Attached to republican principles, the Parti Socialiste firmly condemns “any attempt to call into question the exercise of the democratic freedoms enshrined in the Constitution”. It recalls that these freedoms are “conquests of high struggle” and affirms its commitment to the preservation of the rule of law. The PS expresses its “solidarity and active support” to all the victims of these deviations and reaffirms that the institutions must be “at the service of the people and not of a political camp”.
The Socialist Party denounces the authoritarian tendencies of the current regime
