{"id":6899,"date":"2026-05-26T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/senegal-lawmakers-elect-ousted-pm-sonko-as-new-parliament-speaker\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:35:38","slug":"senegal-lawmakers-elect-ousted-pm-sonko-as-new-parliament-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/senegal-lawmakers-elect-ousted-pm-sonko-as-new-parliament-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal lawmakers elect ousted PM Sonko as new parliament speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Ousmane Sonko elected after being dismissed as prime minister on Friday by President Faye amid growing economic uncertainty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Senegal\u2019s parliament \u2060\u2060has elected ousted prime \u2060\u2060minister Ousmane Sonko as speaker, a move that \u2060\u2060could give him a powerful platform to challenge President Bassirou \u2060\u2060Diomaye Faye.<\/p>\n<p>The president dismissed Sonko on Friday and dissolved the cabinet, ending months of speculation about a growing \u200c\u200crift between the two over how to handle the country\u2019s debt crisis.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/22\/senegal-pm-slams-wests-homosexual-tyranny-defends-lgbtq-crackdown\">Senegal PM slams West\u2019s \u2018homosexual tyranny\u2019, defends LGBTQ crackdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/4\/10\/senegal-pm-labels-trump-agent-of-global\">Senegal PM labels Trump \u2018agent of global destabilisation\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/1\/minerals-for-aid-are-new-us-health-deals-exploiting-african-countries\">Minerals for aid: Are new US health deals \u2018exploiting\u2019 African countries?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>But lawmakers \u2060\u2060rebelled by reinstating Sonko as a member on Tuesday and voting to elect him as \u2060\u2060speaker with 132 votes in favour.<\/p>\n<p>Sonko remains the undisputed leader of Pastef, the party which controls 130 of the 165 seats in Senegal\u2019s only legislative body.<\/p>\n<p>He received a long ovation after being elected, with no member voting against him and one abstaining, according to the session\u2019s presiding member, Ismael Diallo. Sonko was the sole candidate for the position.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces El Malick Ndiaye, a loyal supporter who resigned on Sunday, paving the way for the ex-prime minister\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"institutional-coup\">\u2018Institutional coup\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Aissata Tall Sall, who heads the main opposition, denounced an \u201cinstitutional coup\u201d which she said on Monday was prepared under \u201cpressure that the majority wants to impose\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sall said she believed Sonko, to become a lawmaker again, should first have resigned as prime minister to sit even temporarily in parliament before returning to government.<\/p>\n<p>Faye appointed Sonko prime minister in April 2024 after winning the presidential election the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Faye largely owes his position to Sonko, his one-time mentor who would almost certainly have taken the top job had he not been barred from the presidential election due to a defamation conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Faye faces the difficult task of governing and implementing reforms in a country troubled by serious economic difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he named senior economist Ahmadou Al Aminou Mohamed Lo as prime minister, saying the new appointee had the expertise to steer Senegal out of crippling debt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousmane Sonko elected after being dismissed as prime minister on Friday by President Faye amid growing economic uncertainty. Senegal\u2019s parliament \u2060\u2060has elected ousted prime \u2060\u2060minister Ousmane Sonko as speaker, a move that \u2060\u2060could give him a powerful platform to challenge President Bassirou \u2060\u2060Diomaye Faye. The president dismissed Sonko on Friday and dissolved the cabinet, ending &#8230; <a title=\"Senegal lawmakers elect ousted PM Sonko as new parliament speaker\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/senegal-lawmakers-elect-ousted-pm-sonko-as-new-parliament-speaker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senegal lawmakers elect ousted PM Sonko as new parliament speaker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}