Since Guy Marius Sagna revealed certain practices such as sukeru koor in the National Assembly, some Pastéf supporters have been furious with the MP. However, Guy Marius Sagna is right to recall Pastef's promise to break with the law, his commitment to better use public resources once in power. Moreover, this sukeru koor from the majority parliamentary group sounds like a snub to Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister, who is also the party leader.

In several of these oral and written statements, Ousmane Sonko has placed great emphasis on the sound management of public funds. The Prime Minister went so far as to ask government departments, for "the sake of rationalization and cost savings," to share equipment instead of purchasing it for each office.

In a note revealed by the press in August 2024, the PM called on the administration to "develop dedicated spaces for the installation of network printers instead of one printer for each office, to be set up in particular at the level of secretarial pools; the development of common areas that can accommodate, subject to security considerations and the preservation of electrical networks, amenities such as refrigerators, coffee machines, microwaves." The PM even banned televisions except for top management and common areas.

Seeing the National Assembly give 100,000 CFA francs in sukeru koor to MPs is proof that the national representation is ignoring the Prime Minister's appeals. And it's all the more serious since Pastef's parliamentary group tried to camouflage the practice by coyly calling it support. How can we understand that the PM wants to rationalize on coffee machines that cost between 50,000 and 100,000, depending on the quality. And that at the same time, the National Assembly or Pastef's parliamentary group is distributing envelopes of 100,000 to MPs, the lowest paid of which is 1,300,000 francs per month.

With 165 deputies, the sukeru koor is 16,500,000 CFA francs. Add to that tickets to Mecca or Rome and certainly other benefits not publicly known. Not to mention the vehicles, the amounts of which are bordering on taboo, given the silence imposed by the presidency of the National Assembly. This news proves that it is possible, with institutions like the Assembly, to save on state spending instead of continuing to go into debt.

The budget execution report for the first quarter of 2025 confirmed the urgent need for the Senegalese government to free up fiscal space. For now, there is a shared feeling that Pastef seems to be forgetting its promise to streamline public spending and focusing on revenue mobilization and debt reduction. It is therefore time, indeed urgent, for Sonko's party to review certain practices that the Senegalese people sought to banish through the election of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.