FADP : Ces incohérences sur la part du CORED et de la CCNP
In the distribution of the Press Development Support Fund, CORED and the National Press Card Commission received 48,918,976 and 33,780,000 CFA francs respectively. In its report, the Ministry of Communication attempted to explain the reasons for these amounts: “…the Management Board approved budget allocations covering expenses for the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years, as well as an advance on expenses for the first quarter of 2026.”
With this procedure, the ministry has just created a "precedent": a budget covering three consecutive years. In Senegal, laws and regulations stipulate a 12-month budget, running from January to December. The ministry understood this so well that some media outlets were barred from submitting their applications due to the deadline, as it was almost the end of the year. "It should be noted that the deadlines for physical submissions could not be extended due to constraints related to closing the fiscal year," the ministry states on page 9 of the report.
But it is this same ministry that approves CORED and CCNP budgets covering the years 2024, 2025, and part of 2026. At this point, a question arises: how will CORED and CCNP, for example, cover their 2024 expenses? It is true that, in its press releases of June 25 and December 3, 2025, concerning the suspension and resumption of its activities respectively, CORED mentioned 14 months of unpaid salaries for its permanent staff, which had forced it to cease operations. However, 14 months is not equal to two years, and it is difficult to cite other expenses, given that "its other bodies (Executive Board, Executive Committee, and Tribunal of Peers) operate on a voluntary basis."
Furthermore, since CORED is required to rule on the present and not the past, it cannot make up for lost time. The shortcomings in the press committed during this period (June-December 2025) will never be addressed by the self-regulatory body. What, then, will the 2024 and 2025 budgets be used for, aside from paying arrears? These same questions apply to the Press Card Commission, which had stopped printing cards due to a lack of resources.
Furthermore, given that the ministry froze the funds in 2024, how can CORED and CCNP be the sole beneficiaries this year, excluding the media, the primary recipients? These are all questions that deserve answers so that taxpayers can understand the rationale for a budget allocation spread over three years.
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