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It is a political earthquake in Senegal but it shows that democracy works there while several countries in the region have experienced coups d’état in recent years. Elected in the first round on Sunday, Bassirou Diomaye Faye will take the lead of the country. Although the official results are not yet known, there is no doubt about the victory of this anti-system opponent and the upcoming transition. The government candidate Amadou Ba admitted his defeat on Monday and called to congratulate him. Outgoing President Macky Sall, who did not run again after being elected and re-elected in 2012 and 2019, praised “the smooth running of the election” and congratulated “the winner, Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye”. Internationally Emmanuel Macron also congratulated Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday evening and was delighted to “work with him”.
Emmanuel Macron is expected in Brazil this Tuesday with the aim of sealing the warming of relations with the South American giant. Before that, the president will conclude his trip to Guyana with a visit to the Kourou Space Center, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and is awaiting the inaugural flight of the future heavy launcher Ariane 6, between mid-June and mid-June. end of July. Then, during his nearly three-day state visit to Brazil, the Head of State intends to turn the page, with his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on the dark years of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency and strengthen the partnership bilateral. It will then be time for symbols: the two heads of state will meet in the Amazon, in Belem, to demonstrate that economic development can rhyme with environmental protection.
While some French economic figures send chills down your spine this Tuesday, Bruno Le Maire yesterday urged people to “keep your cool”. The public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, at 154 billion euros, INSEE has just revealed, i.e. much more than the 4.8% deficit achieved in 2022 and the 4.9 % initially planned by the government for 2023. French public debt reaches 110.6% of GDP at the end of 2023. This is less than in 2022, when it stood at 111.9%, but almost a point percentage above the government forecast (109.7%). During a visit to Bercy on Thursday, the general rapporteur of the Senate Finance Committee Jean-François Husson castigated the government’s “disastrous budgetary management”, “incapable of following the budgetary trajectory that it itself had adopted”. “.