{"id":3558,"date":"2019-04-04T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:45:55","slug":"senegals-macky-sall-starts-second-term-with-call-for-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/04\/04\/senegals-macky-sall-starts-second-term-with-call-for-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal’s Macky Sall starts second term with call for dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macky Sall<\/a> has embarked on his second term as Senegal<\/a>‘s president pledging “constructive” dialogue with the opposition and reforms to spur development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clad in a navy blue suit, Sall on Tuesday swore “before God and before the nation” to serve the people as several visiting African leaders looked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 57-year-old leader chose the new city of Diamniadio, some 32km from the capital, Dakar, and a product of his Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE) launched in 2014, to make his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He urged optimism, saying “it seems new economic perspectives are opening up for our country”, a reference to Senegal’s plans to enter the hydrocarbons sector in 2021-22 via two ambitious oil and gas developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his brief inauguration speech, he also said he would particularly look to aid the young, pursuing employment and training policies promoting “the entrepreneurial spirit and new technologies”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added he would commit to “public policies favouring women and girls,” ensure “decent housing” for all and “safeguard the environment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sall, in power since 2012, garnered a 58-percent vote share in February’s poll, well clear of former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, who won 20 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He became the frontrunner in the election after two prominent opposition figures were excluded from the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade who was in power from 2000 to 2012, were barred from running due to corruption<\/a>convictions that the opposition say were politically motivated. Sall and his party deny this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election sidelined the Socialist Party and the Senegalese Democratic Party which have dominated politics since independence from France in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the disqualifications outraged the opposition, Sall insisted he would rule “for all Senegalese”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I renew my call for … a constructive dialogue open to all political, economic and social forces,” Sall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposition has so far shown no sign of wanting to grasp any olive branch Sall might extend since he was officially proclaimed as the poll winner on March 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macky Sall has embarked on his second term as Senegal‘s president pledging “constructive” dialogue with the opposition and reforms to spur development. Clad in a navy blue suit, Sall on Tuesday swore “before God and before the nation” to serve the people as several visiting African leaders looked on. The 57-year-old leader chose the new city of Diamniadio, some 32km from the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}