National Assembly: How Bassirou Diomaye Faye Will Again Bypass Ousmane Sonko

Ousmane Sonko and Pastef lawmakers are threatening to block the supplementary budget, whose passage the Assembly president has tied to controls on special funds and a freeze on fuel prices. Public-law scholar Mor Fall says a rejection would not leave the executive without options, although no specific mechanism addresses parliament’s refusal to pass a supplementary budget. The government could issue an advance decree to open urgently needed credits or ask the Constitutional Council to recognize a legislative failure.