May 1, 2025 will remain in our collective memory as a founding moment: that when the State, the trade union organizations and the employers have chosen, together, to turn a page and to write a new story. By signing the National Social Stability Pact for inclusive and sustainable growth, we have made the solemn commitment to offer Senegal a renewed framework for dialogue, social justice and shared prosperity.
This pact, the fruit of months of consultation and listening, is not a simple technical agreement. It is a major political commitment, a strategic vision of Senegal that we want: sovereign, fair, productive. He embodies the hope of a country where social stability is no longer a luxury, but a lever for the growth and dignity of work.
Social break: an act of collective responsibility
The decision to establish a three -year social truce is not a capitulation of legitimate demands. It is the expression of lucid patriotism, of a high sense of the general interest. It will allow the government to deploy, without hindrance, ambitious reforms in the crucial fields: education, health, employment, retirement, remuneration, territorial governance. At unions, it offers a structured framework for a productive dialogue. To employers, it gives the visibility necessary to invest and hire.
A reforming state, listening to citizens
Under the leadership of the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the government has chosen dialogue and structuring action. We have heard teachers, health professionals, civil servants, cultural actors, young people in search of employment. We have provided concrete answers: digitalization of public services, recovery of retirement age, better social protection, salary revaluation, reform of the Labor Code.
It is not a speech. It is a transformation agenda backed by the national agenda “Senegal 2050”.
The meaning of history: to unite, reform, build
The time is no longer for sterile antagonisms or partisan calculations. The time is for responsibility, reconstruction. The PNSS-CID is an innovative governance tool, a moral contract between the nation’s living forces. He devotes tripartism as a mode of public decision: government, social partners and employers united around the same table, carrying the same ambition.
I salute the maturity of the unions, the commitment of employers, and the determination of the government here. This pact is our common heritage. He calls for vigilance, rigorous monitoring, permanent mobilization.
Together, let’s live the pact
The promises of this text will be in vain without the active membership of all parties. I call for local elected officials, community actors, young people and women: let us seize this opportunity to reinvent work, strengthen our social cohesion and revive trust.
Senegal deserves a horizon of stability and progress. This pact is the base. It is up to us to make him live, embody it and transmit it.
Nfamara Touré,
Pastef politician in Tamba
