During a press briefing, Aminata Touré announced that she was leaving the majority and launching her own political movement. She especially dropped Macky Sall, to whom she addresses many reproaches.
chosen to be head of the national majority list for the legislative elections last July, Aminata Touré signed her return to the bosom of President Macky Sall after a first break which had followed her departure from the Economic, Social and Environmental Council in 2019. But 5 kilometers traveled and 000 days later, the observation is clear: the rift between the President of the Republic and his former Prime Minister is definitively consummated.
This September 25, "Mimi" Touré organized a press briefing to "explain what happened" during the legislative elections. “And I will not come back to the question any more”, warned Amina Touré who assures that a “prior agreement” had been found between her and Macky Sall. The former Prime Minister was indeed to take the presidency of the National Assembly. In exchange, she had promised to "coordinate the sponsorship which lasted for weeks and then tour the country for the legislative campaign".
I share with you, the speech of my press briefing this Sunday, September 25, 2022 at #Dakar
#kebetu #Senegal #Afrique #Policy pic.twitter.com/419fYDRtgc— Aminata TOURE (@aminatatoureklk) September 25, 2022
However, on September 12, "at exactly 9 a.m., President Macky Sall called me to tell me that he had finally changed his mind, exactly 26 minutes before the arrival of his emissaries at the National Assembly who had come to announce the name of its candidate", indicates Aminata Touré, who ironically: "Fortunately, my heart is firmly attached".
“3rd mandate legally impossible, morally impossible”
Tired of these "uncertainties of political life", and recalling that she wanted to "participate in advancing her country", Aminata Touré took advantage of this press briefing to announce the launch of her own formation, the Movement for Integrity , merit and independence (Mimi). But, specifies Aminata Touré, this break with Macky Sall “is not a story of position even less of privilege”. Because, she adds, the president would have made other “post offers” to her.
Aminata Touré promises to do politics differently, certainly disappointed by this legislative campaign. “I consider that it is high time that we put ethics back into politics. Politics is not trickery, breach of trust and family preference, she explains. The policy can and even must be accompanied by human values, ethics and above all respect for the word given and above all respect for our laws and regulations”.
Enough to give Macky Sall his coup de grace: this allows Aminata Touré "to make the transition on the central question which, in essence, is at the origin of all this: the question of the impossible third term, legally impossible, impossible morally," announces the former minister. “How then could I have looked at myself in the mirror? How could I look my children in the eye? How could I have looked the Senegalese in the eye? “, she asks, when discussing support for a third term.
Macky Sall lost a major support, but also a member of the Assembly. This has the effect of undermining its already very fragile absolute majority. Because Aminata claims to free herself "from the parliamentary group Benno Bokk Yaakaar to become a non-registered deputy".