Professor Mary Teuw Niane lets loose: “It is a betrayal”

After the National Assembly rejected the 2026 supplementary finance bill, Mary Teuw Niane, chief of staff to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, published an op-ed titled “Betrayal” on November 3. He accused Pastef lawmakers of abandoning their electoral commitments and putting political calculations ahead of the president’s program and Senegal’s National Transformation Agenda 2050. He also criticized the strategy of the National Assembly president, alleging efforts to obstruct the head of state’s work. Niane said the Constitution safeguards state continuity and called for the crisis to become a collective rallying point to advance Senegal’s transformation.