Pope Diop, the one who made much talk about him when he chose to rally the coalition Benno Bokk Yakaar resigned from his position as deputy. It was the man who had put himself on the side of power to help him win a majority in the Chamber, an act that was very badly received by Senegalese opinion and especially by supporters of the opposition.
The former Mayor of Dakar is not the first to throw in the towel, deputy Sokhna Dieng Mbacké, who has been a member of the Assembly since 2012, also withdrew from this 14th legislature in October. The parliamentarian resigned for personal reasons.
This Friday, November 4, Pope Diop returned the apron. According to the newspaper L’Observateur, in its publication this Saturday, November 5, 2022, the former deputy in writing through a letter he sent to the President of the National Assembly, Amadou Mame Diop, justifies his act of withdrawal by not «personal convenience».
leader of Bokk Gis Gis, who in August assumed his support for the presidential coalition and who had enabled the government to regain the majority in the National Assembly, as the newspaper Échos also reports, did not “does not wish to confuse her name, personality and image with this new (legislature) that is already being talked about and not in the right direction”. The newspaper Les Échos also pointed out: Even during the installation (of the National Assembly), on September 12, he did not move once from his seat. He preferred to watch as a spectator the insults, insults, invectives and blows that some members were giving themselves”.
