The revelations of Professor Meïssa Diakhaté: 'Why the President has a power of life or death over the Assembly'

During a roundtable organized by WATHI, Professor Meïssa Diakhaté from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar analyzed the institutional imbalance between the Executive and the Legislature in Senegal. He highlighted that the president has the power to dissolve the National Assembly, which he called a 'power of life or death.' He noted the lack of a symmetric mechanism for the Assembly to end the presidential term and considered the motion of censure limited because the president can reconstitute a similar government.