Basilou Diomaye Faye sworn in as Senegal’s fifth president

Basilou Dimaye Faye was sworn in as Senegal’s fifth president on Tuesday in Diamnyadio, defeating his main rival and ruling party coalition candidate Amadou Ba with more than 54% of the vote. won the postponed election.

After the ceremony in Diamnyadio, about an hour’s drive from the center of the capital Dakar, Faye assured the people who elected him that he was ready to move Senegal forward, saying the results showed a strong commitment to the system. A strong desire for sexual transformation.

He said that the Senegalese people have chosen to build a just country and he will work tirelessly to maintain peace and national cohesion.

Faye, 44, is Senegal’s youngest elected president.

Maimouna Dieye, leader of the women’s wing of the opposition Pasteef party, has worked with Faye for the past 10 years. She said Faye may not have much experience running a country, but he has plenty in his field, including 15 years as a tax inspector.

Dieye said she believed Faye would bring his proposed solutions to the everyday problems of ordinary Senegalese people.

Jean-Charles Biaggi, a researcher and professor of political science at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, said it was important for the new government to make some immediate changes, mainly to reduce the advantages associated with the lifestyle of government officials.

This way, he said, ordinary Senegalese can see that those who govern the country are serving the country and not themselves.

Biaggi also said that now is the time to think about what good governance is. Governments over the past few decades have done little to assess what they have achieved, but the Senegalese people expect their leaders to be held accountable for what they have done, he said.

Meanwhile, many supporters who witnessed the swearing-in of the new president hoped that the tensions of the past few months would fade away and be replaced by hope that their country’s reputation as a beacon of democracy in West Africa would be restored.

The presidents of neighboring Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and other senior officials from African countries attended.