"Il a fait une erreur" : Ousmane Sonko exprime son désaccord avec Diomaye Faye sur les caisses spéciales
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko surprised everyone at the National Assembly on Friday, May 22, 2026, by publicly displaying a major difference of opinion with the President of the Republic on the sensitive issue of political funds and their control.
During the question period before parliament, the Prime Minister stated that the President "made a mistake" on this issue, while expressing hope for a change of heart from him. "The President made a mistake regarding political funds, and I hope he will come to his senses. I disagree with him on this matter," Ousmane Sonko declared bluntly.
The Prime Minister reiterated that transparency and strict oversight of secret funds are a long-standing commitment of his political party. "Since 2014, we have been raising the issue of political funds. In 2019, it was part of our platform, and in 2024, nothing has changed," he reaffirmed, emphasizing that the new authorities had promised the Senegalese people that no state resources would henceforth be managed behind closed doors. "We promised that no funds should be entrusted to anyone without any possibility of oversight," he insisted.
No total abolition, but a French-style supervisory model
The Prime Minister was keen to clarify that there had never been any question of permanently eliminating these special allocations, but rather of subjecting them to a supervisory system comparable to that in place in other democracies. "We never told the President that these funds should be abolished, but there needs to be oversight, like in France where there is a committee," he explained from the podium of the National Assembly. Ousmane Sonko also dismissed the idea that any eliminated funds might have been redirected to inflate the budget of his own department. "The Prime Minister's office already has a fund of over one billion CFA francs. So it's not being redirected to the President," he specified. For him, the issue is primarily ethical. "Senegalese people have always thought that these funds are used to buy off activists," he lamented, reiterating that "not a single cent should be exempt from oversight."
Confidences about Guy Marius Sagna and the Council of Ministers
The Prime Minister also used this public address to reveal the behind-the-scenes details of his intervention when MP Guy Marius Sagna considered formalizing a bill on the subject. "When I learned that Guy Marius wanted to submit a bill, I went to see the President to tell him that letting the National Assembly take up this fight would be a disgrace for the Executive branch, which had made a commitment," he told the parliamentarians. The administrative authority maintains that he took responsibility by placing the matter on the agenda of the Council of Ministers, even though he concedes that the justifications put forward by the Head of State at the time did not convince him. "He gave me his arguments, and I don't agree," he stated definitively. While granting the President of the Republic "a period of observation," Ousmane Sonko warned that he would not hesitate to personally bring the matter back before the Council of Ministers if the situation remained unresolved.
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