Senegal's Constitutional Council stopped a parliamentary attempt to transfer power away from the presidency on Thursday after the National Assembly passed a bill expanding its own authority and that of the prime minister and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye referred the measure for review; Decision 6/C/2026 found the proposed change unconstitutional. [1][2]

The ruling blocks this legal route rather than choosing a political winner: it determines what the bill could do under the constitution and how Parliament attempted the change, without making judges the arbiters of the wider rivalry surrounding Faye, Parliament and former prime minister Ousmane Sonko.

Earlier reporting described a divisive reform intended to curb presidential powers, while the later accounts record the council's intervention after an urgent presidential referral and identify constitutional and procedural defects; keeping those stages separate preserves the actual sequence of Parliament passing the proposal, the president requesting review and the council stopping it. [1][2][3]

The verified X post accurately compresses that sequence to the court halting Parliament's proposed transfer, but Decision 6/C/2026 neither settled which political camp deserves to govern nor permanently fixed Senegal's institutional balance. Parliament may revise or abandon the bill, and the next useful evidence will be a new measure, an assembly response or a detailed account of which defects legislators can cure and how the council expects any revision to proceed legally.

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo