Sénégal- Le Conseil constitutionnel en train de valider la commande du régime, rejette la candidature de l’opposant Ousmane Sonko 1354

Boursine Mbaye, 2 y.

- Politics -

3 min read.

Le Conseil constitutionnel rejette la candidature de l’opposant Ousmane Sonko Consacrant la commande du régime en place, le Conseil constitutionnel, sous la présidence du magistrat Badio Camara, vient de rejeter, vendredi 05 janvier 2024, la candidature de l’opposant Ousmane Sonko à l’élection présidentielle du Sénégal, prévue le 25 février 2024. Daouda MBaye, Journaliste En décidant de rejeter la candidature de l’opposant Ousmane Sonko, de la coalition Président Sonko 2024, ce vendredi 05 février 2024, pour le motif de dossier incomplet, le Conseil constitutionnel (CC) jette un pavé dans la mare ! Rappelons que ce candidat, président du parti PASTEF (Parti des africains du Sénégal pour le travail, l’éthique et la fraternité dissout depuis juin 2023), actuellement en détention à la prison du Cap Manuel, est victime d’un acharnement qui dure depuis bientôt 4 ans. Son seul tort est de proposer des solutions, basées sur la lutte contre la corruption et la concussion, l’industrialisation du pays et un développement inclusif, qui pourraient sortir le Sénégal de son statut de PMA et de PPTE. Accusé de viols répétés, avec menaces de mort sur la masseuse Adji Sarr, il fut finalement condamné par contumace pour corruption de la jeunesse, un délit qui n’a pas été enrôlé au début du procès. Ousmane Sonko ne s’était pas présenté au tribunal parce que plus d’une fois, le pouvoir en place a joué la provocation, lui imposant un itinéraire, gazant son cortège, allant jusqu’à briser la vitre de sa voiture sur lui… pour le conduire de force au tribunal ou l’extirper de son véhicule pour le ramener chez lui. Un peuple, resté sourd aux appels des lanceurs d’alerte Dans un autre procès pour diffamation, intenté contre lui par Mame Mbaye Kane Niang, actuel ministre du Tourisme, sur les fonds alloués au PRODAC (Programme de développement des domaines agricoles communautaires), sur un montant de 49 milliards f CFA (29 + 20 milliards f CFA), les procédures ont été accélérées pour avoir une condamnation définitive qui exclurait cet opposant de la compétition. Notons que tout ce cirque se déroule, en dépit d’un rapport existant du Commissaire aux Comptes du Cabinet Alliance Audit & Conseils (voir visuel ci-dessous) et la parution en 2019 du livre du Coordonnateur de la Société civile, Brahim Seck, « Lettre au peuple : PRODAC, un festin de 36 milliards f CFA ». A valeur d’aujourd’hui, les résultats des DAC sont loin des objectifs de départ (30 000 emplois jeunes générés, regain de la production agroalimentaire…). D’ailleurs, au Sénégal, on parle maintenant de cœurs de DAC, dont certains restent chimériques et le Sénégal importe des légumes du Maroc, notamment l’oignon, du poisson et que les pénuries de riz, de gaz s’annoncent… La loi du plus fort Malheureusement, tour à tour, tous les pièges que le pouvoir finissant du président Macky Sall avait mis en place, se sont effondrés un à un. D’abord, la contumace a été anéantie, lorsqu’il a été appréhendé de force de chez lui, après un blocus de 55 jours de sa villa au quartier Cité Keur Gorgui à Dakar, pour vol de téléphone portable, après qu’un agent en civil le filmait sans son consentement… Après deux grèves de la faim, il a finalement été placé dans une geôle au Cap Manuel à Dakar. Ensuite, la condamnation à 6 mois de prison avec sursis et 200 millions f CFA de dommages et intérêts, après l’appel du plaignant qui pourtant s’était empressé, à la fin de la première manche, de se satisfaire de ce premier verdict, clamant un honneur sauf, ne le rendait pas inéligible- l’Article L29 du Code électoral est explicite : ne sont exclus que les condamnés pour le cas d’espèces à une peine supérieure à 6 mois !!! Il fallait se rabattre sur une administration aux ordres, notamment la DGE (Direction générale des élections) pour lui refuser ses fiches de parrainage, la CENA (Commission électorale nationale autonome dont la composition a été modifiée récemment après que l’ex-président Doudou Ndir ait fait injonction à la DGE pour la remise de ces fiches, la CDC (Caisse de dépôts et consignations) qui a refusé de lui remettre l’attestation de dépôt de la caution même si le quitus était entre les mains de son mandataire l’honorable député Ayib Daffé, et un Conseil constitutionnel, dont les membres sont nommés par le président de la république. L’équipe de la Coalition Sonko Président prit soin de faire constater ces refus respectifs par huissier. Aujourd’hui, le CC a refusé de compulser le dossier d’Ousmane Sonko qui avait opté pour le parrainage des parlementaires (au nombre de 13), pour le motif de dossier incomplet (il faut 9 pièces) … Me Ciré Clédor Ly, son mandataire, a évoqué une farce électorale en gestation, d’autant plus que la commission électorale, qui comprend, selon la loi, le mandataire, s’est tenue en son absence… De façon rédhibitoire, le président du CC lui a signifié que cette candidature est incomplète… Le pool d'avocats, qui défend l'opposant Ousmane Sonko, a d'ores et déjà introduit un rabat d'arrêt et annonce que son client est plus éligible que jamais.

Boursine Mbaye

Sénégalais, âgé de 61 ans, Daouda MBaye est Journaliste, spécialisé dans la Presse écrite, notamment sur les questions économiques et financières. Il a derrière lui une expérience de plus de 20 ans dans ce métier pour lequel il a été tour à tour Chef de rubriques puis Rédacteur en chef de plusieurs supports marocains ou internationaux.

THE ENCHIRIDION - I 1929

Bluwr X Commons: Epictetus, 2 y.

1 min read.

There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word, whatever are not properly our own affairs. Now the things within our power are by nature free, unrestricted, unhindered; but those beyond our power are weak, dependent, restricted, alien. Remember, then, that if you attribute freedom to things by nature dependent and take what belongs to others for your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will be disturbed, you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you take for your own only that which is your own and view what belongs to others just as it really is, then no one will ever compel you, no one will restrict you; you will find fault with no one, you will accuse no one, you will do nothing against your will; no one will hurt you, you will not have an enemy, nor will you suffer any harm. Aiming, therefore, at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself any inclination, however slight, toward the attainment of the others; but that you must entirely quit some of them, and for the present postpone the rest. But if you would have these, and possess power and wealth likewise, you may miss the latter in seeking the former; and you will certainly fail of that by which alone happiness and freedom are procured. Seek at once, therefore, to be able to say to every unpleasing semblance, “You are but a semblance and by no means the real thing.” And then examine it by those rules which you have; and first and chiefly by this: whether it concerns the things which are within our own power or those which are not; and if it concerns anything beyond our power, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - PREFACE 2033

Bluwr X Commons: Mark Twain, 2 y.

- Short Stories -

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Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. THE AUTHOR. HARTFORD, 1876.

THE MEDITATIONS - Book I.[1/3] 2071

Bluwr X Commons: Marcus Aurelius, 2 y.

4 min read.

1. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger. 2. In the famous memory of my father I had a pattern of modesty and manliness. 3. Of my mother I learned to be pious and generous; to keep myself not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and to live with a simplicity which is far from customary among the rich. 4. I owe it to my great-grandfather that I did not attend public lectures and discussions, but had good and able teachers at home; and I owe him also the knowledge that for things of this nature a man should count no expense too great. 5. My tutor taught me not to favour either green or blue at the chariot races, nor, in the contests of gladiators, to be a supporter either of light or heavy armed. He taught me also to endure labour; not to need many things; to serve myself without troubling others; not to intermeddle in the affairs of others, and not easily to listen to slanders against them. 6. Of Diognetus I had the lesson not to busy myself about vain things; not to credit the great professions of such as pretend to work wonders, or of sorcerers about their charms, and their expelling of Demons and the like; not to keep quails (for fighting or divination), nor to run after such things; to suffer freedom of speech in others, and to apply myself heartily to philosophy. Him also I must thank for my hearing first Bacchius, then Tandasis and Marcianus; that I wrote dialogues in my youth, and took a liking to the philosopher’s pallet and skins, and to the other things which, by the Grecian discipline, belong to that profession. 7. To Rusticus I owe my first apprehensions that my nature needed reform and cure; and that I did not fall into the ambition of the common Sophists, either by composing speculative writings or by declaiming harangues of exhortation in public; further, that I never strove to be admired by ostentation of great patience in an ascetic life, or by display of activity and application; that I gave over the study of rhetoric, poetry, and the graces of language; and that I did not pace my house in my senatorial robes, or practise any similar affectation. I observed also the simplicity of style in his letters, particularly in that which he wrote to my mother from Sinuessa. I learned from him to be easily appeased, and to be readily reconciled with those who had displeased me or given cause of offence, so soon as they inclined to make their peace; to read with care; not to rest satisfied with a slight and superficial knowledge; nor quickly to assent to great talkers. I have him to thank that I met with the discourses of Epictetus, which he furnished me from his own library. 8. From Apollonius I learned true liberty, and tenacity of purpose; to regard nothing else, even in the smallest degree, but reason always; and always to remain unaltered in the agonies of pain, in the losses of children, or in long diseases. He afforded me a living example of how the same man can, upon occasion, be most yielding and most inflexible. He was patient in exposition; and, as might well be seen, esteemed his fine skill and ability in teaching others the principles of philosophy as the least of his endowments. It was from him that I learned how to receive from friends what are thought favours without seeming humbled by the giver or insensible to the gift. 9. Sextus was my pattern of a benign temper, and his family the model of a household governed by true paternal affection, and a steadfast purpose of living according to nature. Here I could learn to be grave without affectation, to observe sagaciously the several dispositions and inclinations of my friends, to tolerate the ignorant and those who follow current opinions without examination. His conversation showed how a man may accommodate himself to all men and to all companies; for though companionship with him was sweeter and more pleasing than any sort of flattery, yet he was at the same time highly respected and reverenced. No man was ever more happy than he in comprehending, finding out, and arranging in exact order the great maxims necessary for the conduct of life. His example taught me to suppress even the least appearance of anger or any other passion; but still, with all this perfect tranquillity, to possess the tenderest and most affectionate heart; to be apt to approve others yet without noise; to have much learning and little ostentation. 10. I learned from Alexander the Grammarian to avoid censuring others, to refrain from flouting them for a barbarism, solecism, or any false pronunciation. Rather was I dexterously to pronounce the words rightly in my answer, confining approval or objection to the matter itself, and avoiding discussion of the expression, or to use some other form of courteous suggestion. 11. Fronto made me sensible how much of envy, deceit and hypocrisy surrounds princes; and that generally those whom we account nobly born have somehow less natural affection. 12. I learned from Alexander the Platonist not often nor without great necessity to say, or write to any man in a letter, that I am not at leisure; nor thus, under pretext of urgent affairs, to make a practice of excusing myself from the duties which, according to our various ties, we owe to those with whom we live. 13. Of Catulus I learned not to condemn any friend’s expostulation even though it were unjust, but to try to recall him to his former disposition; to stint no praise in speaking of my masters, as is recounted of Domitius and Athenodorus; and to love my children with true affection. 14. Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice. Through him I came to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, and Brutus. He gave me my first conception of a Commonwealth founded upon equitable laws and administered with equality of right; and of a Monarchy whose chief concern is the freedom of its subjects. Of him I learned likewise a constant and harmonious devotion to Philosophy; to be ready to do good, to be generous with all my heart. He taught me to be of good hope and trustful of the affection of my friends. I observed in him candour in declaring what he condemned in the conduct of others; and so frank and open was his behaviour, that his friends might easily see without the trouble of conjecture what he liked or disliked.