Guy Marius Sagna rejects Senegal’s debt laws
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Senegalese MP Guy Marius Sagna says he will refuse to vote for finance bills he considers responsible for making citizens pay a public debt he attributes to former leaders and the IMF. He particularly criticises the supplementary finance bill and the initial finance bill, according to Senego.
Senegalese MP Guy Marius Sagna rejected the supplementary finance bill and the initial finance bill, accusing them of making citizens pay a public debt for which they were not responsible. In a message posted on Facebook, he said he could not vote for legislation that, in his view, protected those responsible for the debt, including former president Macky Sall and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Senego.
Guy Marius Sagna considers the two texts to be both a “structural adjustment plan” and a mechanism enshrining the “impunity” of those responsible in Senegal and the IMF. He also accused the Fund of “complicity and [incompetence]” in managing the debt, part of which was allegedly concealed, according to his remarks.
The MP’s position comes after Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko criticised the Senegalese government’s alignment with the IMF on 19 October. Sonko’s criticism of the IMF is part of the same debate over debt management and Senegal’s budgetary measures.
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