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Abdourahmane Sarr proposes dissolving Assembly on 2 December

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Abdourahmane Sarr proposes dissolving Assembly on 2 December

Abdourahmane Sarr, Senegal’s former economy minister, proposes dissolving the National Assembly on 2 December if the executive and the parliamentary majority fail to reach a budget compromise. The CEFDEL president believes new elections could break the institutional deadlock, according to his post on X, as reported by SeneNews.

Former Senegalese Economy Minister Abdourahmane Sarr called on the executive and the parliamentary majority to agree on the budget trajectory. In the absence of a compromise, he proposed dissolving the National Assembly on 2 December, according to a post on his X account.

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