Communication politique et séduction à travers la Déclaration de politique générale du Premier ministre Idrissa Seck à l'Assemblée nationale le 03 février 2003

2.2 The Juste

The image of the man right shows through on several occasions in the Declaration of general policy of the Prime Minister Idrissa Seck. A justice which takes at the same time economic and social contours.

The symbol of justice is the balance, which refers to balance and equity. Two concerns strongly represented in the speech of the Prime Minister. The direction of balance appears through the preached shared responsabilities between the holders for « command » (Seck 2003 : 8) and other fringes of the company. This decisional balance takes again the requirement of a management concerted as enacted in democracy and to which the Prime Minister wants to conform:

(...) I will call some with a division right, balanced, and relevant of the loads related to our governmental mission. One will need a mobilization of all the segments of our company to increase our chances of success. (Seck 2003 : 8) 

Balance is transformed quickly into equity. A social equity which orders with the decision makers to take care of the interests of all, by guaranteeing the weakest rights of each one while protecting :

It (the program of the Government) aims offering to the adult the optimal framework of blossoming of its talents, and at organizing for the Old one, a honourable old age, by means of a viable system of retirement. (Seck 2003 : 9)

Justice exceeds the framework of social equity to include the solidarity which recommends, not only the protection of weakest, but also the help and the assistance with stripped. This is why the program of the Government «also aims, if necessary, at lending to all, the heat cover of our national solidarity» (op.cit. : 9).

But justice is not solely of order economic. It borrows also contours of coercion by the repression and the sanction of the faulty ones. From where multiplication of acts threatening in its speech like demonstration of a rigor without faults in its search of justice. An implementation of the justice which raises the paces of a duality between the Good and the Evil by which are encouraged the authors of good deeds while those guilty of prohibited practices will be punished :

Beyond the laughter which this evocation starts, each one among us will have to choose in any responsibility its identity, because I am decided to help Goor and to fight Ndioublang. (Seck 2003 : 10)

In this crusade against the evil, equity wants to be full and whole. Thus the Prime Minister commits himself putting everyone on the same equal footing compared to justice. Because, it supports, « that Ndioublang is a high-ranking dignitary of the State or a retailer of pirated cassette, it will be fought ». In the same way, in connection with the audits^40(*), it is committed making so that they are held under conditions which do not suffer from any handling :

I make a point, however, of solemnly saying, without being able to reveal secrecies of instruction, that the political affiliation did not withdraw and nobody will withdraw from the rigors of the Law. (op.cit. : 10)

Conscious that the accuracy of the decisions, with it only, could not make them operational, the Prime Minister posts his firm will to implement a certain number of practices which make it possible justice to be effective. From where the invocation of the concepts of « transparency », of « responsibility » and of « good governorship » (op.cit. : 10), which requires the application of bold measures to the image of the «active policy of fight against the corruption ». A will to fight against the corruption which is not limited to a profession of faith but which gives itself the means of its operationnality :

For that, I attach greattest importance to implementation a rigorous of the new Code des Marches Publics. This code expects that the principle as regards market is the invitation to tender, i.e. the transparency and the equal opportunity of all the candidates. I intend to make so that from now on the greatest part of the public markets passed on these bases. The markets private must become the exception limited to the only cases aimed in the code. It moreover is envisaged, in the next weeks, the adoption of a lawful text instituting the Council of the good governorship and fight against the corruption. (Seck 2003 : 10)

The symbol of the balance, which refers to justice, also appears through the distribution even of justice. This one wanting to be upstream and downstream from the company. Thus we have the manifestation of justice like means of attenuation of a drama, as it is the case compared to the management of the tragedy related to the shipwreck of the boat Joola :

The nature and the complexity of the task impose vigilance and rigor to us so that no injustice comes to weigh down the emotional load of this painful collective tragedy. (Seck 2003 : 6)

In the same way, we have an idea of justice like mode of definition of the good way, through an approach moralisatrice and educational :

The best tool for fight against poverty remains the access to a decent income. I know only three access roads, with the income: one which anoblit: work, one which fixes: assistance, one which degrades: flight. (Seck 2003 : 18)

In the Declaration of general policy, the ethos of man right, posted by the Prime Minister, is packed by the fact that the elements approached under the angle of justice relate to questions of principle which cause naturally consensus, not easily contestable to the risk of being made marginalize, even discredit, for that which would try it. The ethos of the man right is all the more acceptable as that which sets up as a dispenser of justice refuses to pass for an authoritative being, which would misuse its capacities. Thus spreads, through the speech, the image of a modest and humble individual who does not let himself carry by the volutes of the capacity.

* ⁴⁰ The Audit, moreover, will not be limited to a stock of files passed, but will accompany in a permanent way, like tool of prevention as much as repression, management in progress. And it is there that its true role resides at the service of the transparency raised with the row of constitutional obligation by our mode.