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### Viewing cable 09DAKAR1376, Senegal: Campaigning for the 2012 is Already Underway

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09DAKAR1376 | 2009-11-05 07:07 | 2010-12-09 21:09 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Dakar

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    RR RUEHMA RUEHPA
    DE RUEHDK #1376/01 3090748
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    R 050748Z NOV 09
    FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3307
    INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DAKAR 001376

    SIPDIS
    SENSITIVE

    DEPT FOR AF/W, AF/RSA, DRL AND INR/AA
    PARIS FOR AFRICA WATCHER

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PGOV PREL PINS KDEM ECON SG
    SUBJECT: Senegal: Campaigning for the 2012 is Already Underway

    ¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Although presidential elections are not slated
    until February 2012, the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS)
    and the opposition Benno coalition (unity in Wolof) continue to spar
    against one another while internal debates rage as to who will
    represent them in the election. President Abdoulaye Wade's plan to
    have his son Karim succeed him is not popular among the Senegalese,
    a fact that led him to announce that he will run in 2012 (at the age
    of 86) for a seven-year term. This comes amid rumors of yet another
    constitutional amendment in the works - this time aimed at
    eliminating a second round runoff - thus increasing the chances of
    Wade being reelected. End Summary.

    Call for political dialogue
    ---------------------------

    ¶2. (SBU) Most of Senegal's leading opposition parties are not
    represented in the National Assembly after they boycottd the 2007
    legislative elections. Following those elections, the opposition
    called for a politica dialogue to address the electoral law and to
    reorm voter registration. Until the PDS lost big inrecnt local
    elections, Wade had continually refsed this call, saying that he
    would not bail out an opposition that was paying for bad political
    choices. However, now a new paradigm exists whereby political
    dialogue is less urgent for the opposition but more so for Wade.

    Out Come the Skeletons
    ----------------------

    ¶3. (SBU) In July, the opposition demanded that Wade include in any
    agenda of dialogue a discussion of the assassination of Judge Seye
    in 1993. At the time Wade was accused of being its instigator, a
    rumor that gained traction when he pardoned all the perpetrators who
    were jailed in the case after winning the Presidency in 2000.
    Wade's response to this request left the opposition astounded. He
    accused the Socialist Party, who had ruled the country from 1960 to
    2000, of being behind the assassination of Police Chief Sadibou
    Ndiaye in 1989 and the mysterious deaths of two young female albinos  whose disappearance was never clarified. He threatened to reveal  more if the opposition continued down this path. The opposition  duly dropped the matter and, in a letter dated October 8, they  proposed nine points of discussion for a dialogue. These included:  urgent social issues, the electoral system, the Casamance crisis,  public finances, political and institutional governance, liberties
    and the rule of law, the business environment and employment.
    President Wade accepted all nine points, even though he had
    initially refused to discuss electoral and human rights issues,
    arguing that the electoral system was good enough to allow the
    opposition to win local elections and that Senegal's election to the
    United Nation's Human Rights Council underlined his government's
    positive track record. However, his acceptance came with
    preconditions. He demanded that the issues of public finance be
    discussed with government ministers live on camera in the presence
    of religious leaders and diplomats. The opposition rejected these
    preconditions and the process is now at a standstill.

    Wade Unites his Satraps
    -----------------------

    ¶4. (SBU) Wade's most recent political strategy aims to reduce
    dissent in his coalition. By appointing senior dissident leader
    Aminata Tall to a top position in the cabinet and negotiating with
    his former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, who is rumored to be making
    a comeback to reenergize the PDS, Wade is hoping to create a grand
    presidential coalition that will once again carry him to power.
    However, the reality is that this strategy is fragile, as popular
    former Prime Minister Macky Sall is opposed to returning to Wade's
    coalition and Idrissa Seck and Karim Wade detest one another.

    The President is cornered, but...
    -------------------------------

    ¶5. (SBU) President Wade is in a difficult political situation as his
    old age, the rejection of his son by the Senegalese people, and the
    fact that he has black widow-like eliminated all potential young
    leaders who could succeed him have left him cornered. Meanwhile, as  most Senegalese struggle to make ends meet and have lost hope in the  face of massive unemployment, Wade and his entourage are engulfed in  financial scandals. A couple of weeks after his attempt to bribe  former IMF Resrep Alex Segura, Wade had CFA 52 million stolen from  his apartment in Paris by a member of his entourage. A close  relative of Wade told Embassy that this is not the first time the  President has been a victim of such theft.

    ¶6. (SBU) However, the opposition remains paralyzed and has so far
    failed to capitalize on recent PDS setbacks because no decision has
    been made as to whether Benno will unite behind one candidate or
    whether they will respect the charter of good governance that they
    signed in May 2009 following a National Dialogue. This dialogue
    envisioned a transition government to reform the political system

    DAKAR 00001376 002 OF 002

    from a presidential to a parliamentarian one.

    Views of opposition leaders
    ---------------------------

    ¶7. (SBU) Ibrahima Sene, Deputy Leader of the Party of Independence
    and Labor (PIT), told Poloff that his party will stick to the
    conclusions of the National Dialogue. He supports a short
    transition period of twelve to eighteen months, during which time a
    new constitution and electoral law would be voted in and a
    parliamentary regime introduced. For his part former Prime Minister
    Moustapha Niasse, the leader of AFP who is 72, wishes to be the
    candidate of Benno but faces strong opposition from the Socialist
    Party. Niasse is a rich and well-known politician who financially
    and politically contributed to Wade's victory in 2000. For Niasse,
    this is his last chance to be President as he nears the end of his
    political career. He denied to PolCouns rumors that he was solely
    focused on being the candidate of Benno, adding that he supports a
    serious debate on institutional reforms and the nature of Senegal's
    political system. He "is open to all possibilities" as long as the
    goal of Benno remains to remove Wade from power.

    ¶8. (SBU) Ousmane Tanor Dieng, the leader of the Socialist Party,
    told PolCouns he was against a transition and that the Benno
    candidate should be determined by primaries. It is not clear that
    Benno has the required organization or even desire to go to
    primaries given the large number of small party leaders who would
    lose their influence in such a selection process. However, Tanor
    confessed that if Wade eliminates the second round runoff, they will
    have no other choice but to agree on one candidate. Talla Sylla,
    the fiery young leader of Jeuf Jeul, indicated that there is a
    consensus being formed around Niasse as the candidate and he
    predicted that Tanor will be isolated if he persists with the idea
    of holding primaries. Macky Sall, the leader of APR/Yakaar, a party
    he created after Wade removed him as Chairman of the National
    Assembly, told Poloff that he neither believed in changing the
    current system nor in Benno having one candidate. He then boldly
    declared himself ready to run against Wade adding that both Niasse
    and Tanor are "outdated."

    ¶9. (SBU) COMMENT: Over the last thirty years Wade has proved to be a savvy politician who has always managed to turn around the most
    difficult of situations. But his defeat in the local elections of
    March 2009 is a clear indication that the voters are tired and have
    grown weary of Wade's increasingly aloof administration. Now the
    challenge is for Benno to unite and clearly articulate their vision
    for political, economic, and institutional reforms. However, of
    greater worry is what would happen in the event that Wade dies
    before designating a successor. As it stands, both the PDS and
    Benno are internally, deeply divided and there are real concerns
    that neither group is ready to fill the gap in event of Wade's
    demise, which would likely lead to a period of vicious internecine
    political fighting in both camps and general instability in the
    country. End Comment.

    Bernicat

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