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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