Macky's investitures, the forced march of the allies

All major parties, allies of the Apr, hold conventions to invest the outgoing president Macky Sall. A forced march, to "force" these parties to better engage in the campaign of the candidate of the coalition Benno.

The Socialist Party (Ps) and the Alliance of Forces for Progress (Afp), the two main allies of the President of the Republic, will hold tomorrow, but separately their convention of nomination of Macky Sall.

Before these two political parties, the other two parties of the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition with the Apr, the Ld and the Pit or at least what remains of these other smaller allies have already made their motion of support, even if that has gone almost unnoticed because of their low representativeness.

Aj / Authentique Landing Savané and other allied parties have invested, yesterday the outgoing President Macky Sall. Yet all Senegalese know full well that these political parties have renounced to seek universal suffrage for the outgoing president, the leader of their coalition. Nevertheless, tomorrow Ousmane Tanor Dieng in the afternoon and Moustapha Niasse in the morning, will declare urbi et orbi, once again, their unfailing and unequivocal support for the President of the Republic, candidate for his own succession .

And according to a member of the National Executive Secretariat (SEN) of the Apr, it is for these two party secretaries-general to prove to their activists who have remained loyal to them that they support without hesitation the candidacy of President Macky Sall. .

"Everyone knows that Moustapha Niasse and Ousmane Tanor Dieng are with President Macky Sall, but we always say that repetition is pedagogical," says our interlocutor. "That is why it is always good, just a stone's throw from the presidential election, to renew and remind their support so that their activists have no doubt.

That's why Macky Sall is attending the investiture conferences of these key allies. This is an unprecedented strategy in electoral matters to push them to get better involved in the upcoming election campaign, "he continues, adding that this is the first time that a candidate for a presidential election is invested by allies in this way. In the past, the candidates' allies were simply declaring their support and attending the nomination of their favorite candidate.

The leaders of the Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition led by socialist Alpha Bayla Guèye held their inaugural congress last week in Dakar. On Friday the "Sages" led by Yéro Deh followed suit in the suburbs of Dakar. The day before yesterday, it was the turn of the women of the presidential movement in Mbour and the young people in Dakar yesterday. In short, all the structures of the presidential coalition officially and publicly invested the candidate Macky Sall.

But for our interlocutor, the investiture congresses of Benno structures do not have the same scope and the same symbol as the investiture of a party like Ps or Afp. "You will agree with me that the symbolism is stronger when Ousmane Tanor Dieng or Moustapha Niasse engages his person and his party.

Better, they engage with their political apparatus and at the same time engage the militants. It's also a way for President Macky Sall to galvanize them, "concludes the leader of the presidential party. Provided that this strategy works and that the militants of the allied parties follow.

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