us all from the senegalese capital dhaka we have a minotaur formally a prime minister of senegal yaseen fallen economist and founding member of the movement for the defense of democracy and. francophone west africa research at amnesty international a warm welcome to you all yes even fall from the opposition's stands this country senegal used to be the high water mark of stable democracy in west africa what changed and why change is a. factor. in the crossroads. we are at the crossroads because we have right now a president who. is trying to set the stage for. ringback presidents and this is for 20 elections i'm probably $24.00 but the president has repeatedly said that he will reduce a position its minimum level of existence the president has had also a practice of regularly and this is the 3rd time and the mining is a parliament using the courts to the point where the opponent is not able to run for elections the 3rd thing is we have seen a situation of really you know political. harassment of civil society populist activist and. a political leaders 'd we have also seen but have had li

those points to a minister to or the former prime minister mystery as a journal of wreck or what yaseen file is saying there is factually correct the 3 significant opposition leaders who have stood against the incumbent recently have all been in effect airbrushed out of the process by a use by somebody or some people of the legal system. well let me just maybe speak today to the situation right now and you know my great thick you know answer to it 3 yes in with an activist and no great settlement great defender and rights defender ringback. i do think that the situation as we speak i mean is it is is concerning that for sure if you see what happened sunday god as you said is known as you know a great example in africa of stable democracy so how did we get how did we get here so i think it's a it's a it's a bit it's a very important question obviously and i have to have said that when i was in position government position the issue of to is way behind us i mean this is something that we don't expect anybody to to discuss about for me it didn't betty very clear and i said it 7 times. and