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Senegalese Prime Minister Amadou Ba was in France to meet diaspora activists on Saturday December 9, as well as his French counterpart, Élisabeth Borne.
On the steps of Matignon building, Élisabeth Borne shakes hands with Amadou Ba with a big smile.
It’s an image that has caused a stir less than three months ahead of the presidential election, when the current Prime Minister is also the ruling camp’s candidate to succeed President Macky Sall.
“I deplore this diplomatically ill-timed gender confusion. Our partners […] owe it to themselves to practice total equidistance between all the candidates” in the forthcoming presidential election, declared Aminata Touré, a former Prime Minister now in the ranks of the opposition and herself in the running for the supreme magistracy.
Another opposition candidate, Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, pointed out on his Facebook page that “every one of [Amadou Ba’s] acts is purely political”, while the Prime Minister has just completed a pre-campaign economic tour of Senegal.
The head of government was in France to take stock of the implementation of decisions taken at the intergovernmental seminar held in Paris in December 2022.
“The electoral context must not be an obstacle to the continuity of the State,” he explained in an interview with RTS public television.
It is vital and imperative that the government be able to ensure the continuity of the state.
