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The Senegalese government on Friday launched a "national dialogue" after the reelection of President Macky Sall this year, despite the boycott of the initiative by much of the opposition.
Interior Minister, Aly Ngouye Ndiaye, has set up a commission to discuss key issues such as the state of the economy and security, electoral reform and the government. environment.
Sall, 57, presented the concept of "dialogue" after taking an oath in April after being re-elected in February.
He launched it Tuesday in the presence of religious leaders and tribes, representatives of civil society and representatives of the opposition.
Sall called the process "consultation".
"I have always thought that democracy could not or should not be reduced to the state of permanent confrontation between government and opposition, between majority and minority," he said.
But critics say this initiative is a deviation from the country's problems and that they say the law must be used to stifle rivals.
Former minister Karim Wade and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, who has the same last name as the president, are not related to him.
The "dialogue" was snubbed by former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck and lawmaker Ousmane Sonko, who ranked second and third in the elections, as well as by the party of former president Abdoulaye Wade.
Issa Sall and Madicke Niang, the two other candidates put to the vote, take part in the ballot.
Participants have two weeks to make proposals on the different themes. A former minister, Famara Ibrahima Sagna, has been appointed to lead the process.
Sall promised to implement measures for which there is a "consensus". A previous "national dialogue" took place in 2016, but it did not come out of it.
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