Senegal Parliament Speaker El Malick Steps Down as Political Crisis Deepens
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View: Senegal’s political avalanche
Alexis’s viewSenegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye set off a political avalanche by firing his popular prime minister, Ousmane Sonko. Faye probably calculated that the move, announced late on Friday, could bury his own political career but was worth the risk to break an impasse that has prevented the country plotting a path out of its debilitating debt crisis.The pair have disagreed over the handling of public debt that the International Mon…
The president of the Senegalese National Assembly (Unicameral Parliament), El Malick Ndiaye, presented his resignation after the head of State, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, ceased last Friday his close ally Ousmane Sonko as Prime Minister and dissolved the Government."After a deep reflection, matured in silence, responsibility and a sense of duty towards the State, I decided to resign my position as President of the Senegalese National Assembly," Ndia…
The President of the National Assembly of Senegal, Malick Ndiaye, announced his resignation on social media on Sunday 24 May 2026 at the end of the day. A decision taken "after a deep reflection" and "mature in silence", without further details and less than 48 hours after the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, terminated the office of Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko.
The former Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who was dismissed Friday 22 May 2026 in the evening by the President of the Republic, could be elected this Tuesday at the head of the National Assembly. The new stage of an ever more tense cohabitation between the two former political companions.
Senegal parliament speaker steps down in political crisis
The speaker of Senegal’s parliament said Sunday he was resigning, two days after his close ally was fired as prime minister, deepening a political crisis in the debt-laden West African country. President of the Senegalese National Assembly Malick Ndiaye arrives to attend a plenary session on current affairs at the National Assembly in Dakar on February 21, 2025. © Seyllou, AFP The move by speaker El Malick Ndiaye clears the way for sacked premi…
The installation of Ousmane Sonko as President of the National Assembly is now almost active, after the resignation of El Malick Ndiaye on 24 May 2026. Pastef's leader thus leaves the frontal opposition to assume the second function of the Senegalese state. Commentators lose there, Parisian press editorialists shout at the "institutional crisis", and some financial circles wave the spectre of instability conducive to forced intervention by the I…
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