Companies need public procurement to be able to breathe, and the state should therefore not freeze PSE projects any longer. In addition, in the post-Covid-19 tax arbitrations, the president of the CNP wants the State to materialize its ambition to broaden the tax base, in order to reduce the pressure that weighs most on the same companies.

The State must quickly restart the PSE's projects for the recovery of the Senegalese economy. This is the cry of the heart of the National Council of Employers (CNP). Baïdy Agne, who is undoubtedly the spokesperson for all his colleagues, believes that public procurement is "a powerful lever for economic growth and job creation/consolidation". This rapid recovery does not necessarily require recourse to the outside. Baïdy Agne stresses that the financing of PES projects could be done through new instruments of our monetary policy. He therefore suggests "worrying more about the health of the company, as well as the possibilities of intervention of the Bceao, banks and financial institutions".
We have seen that in all countries of the world, even the most liberal, the Covid-19 pandemic has put back in the saddle the importance of state regulation. In France, Germany and even England, this crisis has shown that a disaster of this magnitude can only be brought under control by using all the resources of the state. The time was no longer for "Less state and better state", so much vaunted at one time here and under other skies. On the contrary, its role has become central in the regulation of economic and social policy instruments.
In Senegal, as soon as the first cases of coronavirus appeared, the government took radical health and social measures, and implemented an Economic and Social Resilience Program (Pres). The aim was to seek to strengthen the health system, while supporting households, the diaspora as well as companies and their employees.
Senegalese companies, which in this country are among the sectors most impacted by the effects of Covid-19, want to quickly alert the public authorities so that their concerns are taken into account in the post-Covid-19 economic recovery program. In an editorial published in the June 2020 edition of their magazine Entreprendre Plus, the president of the National Council of Employers (CNP) calls on African leaders to draw inspiration from what is being done in Europe for the recovery of their economies. This allows Baïdy Agne to illustrate: "Regulatory and legal derogations, rapid and pragmatic innovative solutions. Yes, I would say, so many responses provided by these countries to this health crisis allowing Africa today to see that it is indeed possible to move lines and dogmas of global economic and financial governance."
While he acknowledges that this health crisis will impose budgetary arbitrations to deal with the many health emergencies, social priorities and budgetary constraints of the State, the president of the CNP judges his "duty to alert now in a perspective of economic recovery post Covid-19, to protect the company from collateral effects that could result in more tax pressure and a decrease in public procurement". Indeed, the financial adjustments caused by Covid-19 have weighed heavily on the public treasury as well as on the country's commitments to its foreign partners. Employers fear that companies will be under great pressure when it comes to repaying certain external debts. Mr. Agne said he had exchanged with the Minister of Finance as well as Dgid Bassirou Samba Niasse on the program "Yaatal, yaatal natt, teggi yokkuté". "This is a call to citizens for more fiscal citizenship, social solidarity and republican commitment of all components of the Nation, legal and natural persons. This tax lever is innovative for more inclusive growth, more social progress and well-being for all."
But the CNP insists that this program also includes "Yaatal" for a broadening of the tax base, "Waagni" for a reduction in the pressure on the same taxpayers, including the company that shows fiscal citizenship, "Yémeulé" for