The new president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, appoints a “rupture” government

The new Senegalese president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, appointed a government on Friday April 5 largely composed of faces new to the general public and new to the ministerial level. “The government established here on April 5, 2024 is a government of rupture”declared Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.

The government announced to the press at the presidential palace includes 25 ministers, including four women, for Foreign Affairs, Fisheries, Family and Youth and Culture. It also includes five secretaries of state, all men. “It is a government which embodies the project, a systemic transformation acclaimed by the Senegalese people on March 24 through a first round election with 54.28% of the votes” by Bassirou Diomaye Faye, according to Ousmane Sonko.

The list contains some names of executives from the party of the president and the Prime Minister, Pastef, on the front line of the confrontation in recent years with the former power embodied by the former head of state Macky Sall. A large majority will discover executive functions, in the same way as Bassirou Diomaye Faye, himself never elected for a national mandate.