Nettali source and By Ibrahima Gaye - Magazine 52
Extract:
Forty percent of the electorate without parliamentary representation, that cannot be indifferent in a democratic mode.
Definitely, times changed well. President Abdoulaye Wade, which forever hidden the poor opinion of the courage and the determination of its adversaries of the opposition, will have, if not to admit that it had been mistaken, at least to be made with the idea have to look at them differently. For their part, the persons in charge for the principal parties of the opposition which decided to boycott the legislative elections, are from now on constrained outward journey until the end in the iron arm which they have just engaged. One is far from the years of reserve organized of “the republican opposition”, convenient concept as well for the capacity, which smiled about it of ease, as for the camp of opposite, which covered like hiding place misery. This policy, one sees it, could hardly thrive vis-a-vis the organized determination of president Wade, nor to even produce credit near the public opinion. Quite to the contrary. The hour is with confrontation and acrimony. In testify the epistolary exchanges with what from now on the relations between the enemy fortifications are summarized. On the form as in the content, null gracieuseté; the tone is dry, the fortifying words. On March 30, in counterpart, the signatories of the letter to the president of the Republic show it to have closed all the ways of the dialogue, draw the conclusions from its refusal to consider a revision of the electoral conditions, and decide to boycott the legislative ones and the local elections. On April 2, the parties linked in the face of the boycott write to president Wade again “to answer the technical questions” by which this one justified its rebuff. > Lire la suite