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Special funds: Amadou Ba accuses Faye of blocking bill

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Senegalese MP Amadou Ba accuses President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of preventing the adoption of a law regulating special funds by using the blocked vote procedure. He also criticises the Constitutional Council for approving the procedure, reports SeneNews, cited by Senego.

Senegalese MP Amadou Ba, a member of the Pastef party, accuses President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of preventing the adoption of the organic bill intended to regulate special funds, reports Senego. He says the head of state used the “blocked vote” procedure to obstruct the bill.

According to Amadou Ba, the Assembly had begun examining a budget organic law at the request of the Constitutional Council. The MP also accuses the government of introducing amendments intended, in his view, to counter parliamentarians' vote, and criticises the Constitutional Council for approving the use of this procedure.

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