It was on the evening of Thursday, July 20, 2023 that Senegalese deputies adopted a law that abolished a special anti-corruption court. According to the country's government, this court failed to curb economic and financial crime and was decried by opponents as a jurisdiction created to subdue them

The bill passed last Thursday was approved by more than 120 deputies out of the 165 members of the National Assembly. Indeed, the Court for the Suppression of Illicit Enrichment (Crei) will be replaced by a financial judicial pool (PJF). Almost all the deputies who spoke welcomed the abolition of Crei. Parliamentarians spoke at length about the cases of two opposition figures, Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall, who were prevented from participating in the 2019 presidential election because of CREI convictions. Noted that the new law must be promulgated by the Head of State