"All the exits of the President of the Republic must be covered by the RTS"

Minister of Communication Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé did not take the time to respond to opposition members criticizing the RTS program. "The President of the Republic is an institution, its activities must be covered by the RTS," he retorted.

"There was a lot of talk about RTS. RTS spends all of its time showing the President of the Republic. And I think that's normal. The President of the Republic is an institution. The RPA meetings have never been shown or rarely. As the President of the Republic is an institution, his activities must be covered by the RTS ".

Abdoulaye Bibi Balde defends that the RTS has the same obligation to report the activities of the Head of State in their entirety. "It has been said, the head of state has inaugurated a lot. But when you start an industrial platform, something new, you can not cover that in the end. We will have to go into the details, explain that to the people so that they understand. So the RTS is the only press organ that has the obligation to meet the activities of the head of state, "he says.

Wanting to be clearer, the minister said: "Other media outlets do not have this obligation. Yet he is the president of all Senegalese. So I think that's clear. There is no problem at this level. RTS takes into account cultural diversity. There is good coverage of the territory. There is also pluralism of information. There is a program for political parties under the control of the CNRA ".

Better, Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé argues, "we are going to set up much more thematic channels, oriented towards sectors such as health, culture, sport, environment, even a parliamentary chain that will cover even more activity. policy of all requests ".