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This episode analyses the political rupture between Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko, two figures long presented as the two pillars of a single transformation project in Senegal.
The arrival in power of the Faye-Sonko duo had been driven by a strong popular expectation: a break from old practices, institutional restructuring, economic sovereignty, social justice and restoration of trust between the state and citizens.
But the exercise of power often reveals the fracture lines that the opposition temporarily maintained under control. Between presidential legitimacy, partisan leadership, government arbitrations, ambition management and public pressure, balance becomes more fragile.
This podcast questions the root causes of this tension: rivalry of legitimacy, difficulty of governing with two heads, weight of popular expectations, internal contradictions of the political project and the risk of a governance crisis at the top of the Senegalese state.
Beyond people, the episode raises a major institutional question: can a political project of rupture survive when its main incarners cease to appear as a coherent bloc in the eyes of the country?
