What??? Thanx for sharing Kukeh. Talk about creating constitutional  problems 
for oneself. As if Presidents are the implementers of development in a  
nation. Africans ought to get away from this vacuous perceptions of presidents.  
The term limit in constitutions and or election schedules do not and cannot  
address implementation of development programmes. Continuum in the constitution  
addresses that and rightly so unless governments have given up hope in the  
citizenry. Any citizen elected President by the majority of fellow citizens can  
implement development programmes initiated by his/her predecessor. That has  
to be the guiding principle in constitutions. I am terribly disappointed in  
the Justice minister of Senegal.
 
Haruna.
 
In a message dated 7/31/2008 11:09:02 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
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Its said  that in the land of blind, one eye-man is a king but in Africa 
a "double  PhD, President" is PATHETIC!

Malanding


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Thursday,  July 31, 2008

APA-Dakar (Senegal) Senegal’s National Assembly late on  Monday adopted a 
non-retroactive constitutional bill adding two years to  the current 
five-year presidential term of office, APA reports  here.

The amendment concerns the first paragraph of Article 27 of the  22 
January 2001. According to Senegalese officials, the bill does not  apply 
to the present term of office.

Defending the text on behalf  of the government, Senegal’s Justice 
Minister, Mr. Madicke Niang said the  rationale of the constitutional 
bill is to give to the next president,  “enough time” to put in place his 
vision of society and implement his  development programme.

“We need to build and manage our country, the  minister said, dismissing 
the argument that any such modification of the  Constitution should be 
made through a referendum.

“It is almost  impossible to discuss this issue”, he said, in response to 
opposition MPs  who refused to vote this bill.

According to those MPs, the government  should have consulted with the 
opposition, before tabling it before the  parliament.

“At a certain point in time, you need to take  responsibility and to move 
on”, in line with “the vision and choices of  the incumbent government”, 
and I think that time has come’’, Madicke Niang  explained.

Since the country’ independence in 1960, the duration of the  
presidential term of office has been changed several times, especially  
since the advent of the unlimited multiparty system in 1981.

It was  limited to five years between 1988 and 1993 and to seven from 
1993 to  2000.

Abdoulaye Wade, who was elected president in March 2000 for a  seven-year 
term, decided to trim it down to five years, with no  retroactive effect.

Meanwhile, he also decided that the president would  be re-elected once.

The bill adopted on Monday does not change this  latter provision, but 
incumbent President Wade can, if he wants, seek  re-election in 2012, as 
his first seven-year term preceded the  Constitution adopted on 22 
January 2001, in a  referendum.

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