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Founding members

Founding Member Commitment Charter

Association of Senegalese Taxpayers and Consumers (ACCS)
Under the aegis of the think tank L'Étoile et la Cité

Preamble

The Association of Senegalese Taxpayers and Consumers is born of a historic necessity: to lift citizens out of the posture of resigned spectators and raise them up as the sovereign watchmen of the Republic.

Becoming a Founding Member is not an honorary title. It is a pact of rigour, method and integrity in the service of safeguarding the commons and the dignity of the consumer.

By signing this charter, each Founding Member solemnly subscribes to the following six commitments:

  1. 1
    Article 1

    Absolute independence and partisan neutrality

    The Founding Member undertakes to preserve the Association's full autonomy from any political party, power structure, economic lobby or ideological allegiance. The Association is the sentinel of no camp; its only compass is the general interest, budgetary transparency and the rule of law.

  2. 2
    Article 2

    The "Collective Citizen" method

    The Founding Member renounces attacks on motives, invective and emotional reactions. They undertake to apply the scientific method of public policy: investigate the facts, audit the figures, trace the chain of institutional responsibility and put forward documented, workable proposals.

  3. 3
    Article 3

    Intellectual elegance and republican fair play

    In public as within the Association's bodies, the Founding Member shows impeccable courtesy. They challenge ideas and assess the exercise of public office without ever attacking people in their private lives. They favour technical demonstration over sterile polemics.

  4. 4
    Article 4

    Uncompromising defence of taxpayers and consumers

    The Founding Member undertakes to track down any waste of public money and any fiscal opacity. With the same determination, they work to defend purchasing power and users' rights against monopolies, the high cost of living and failing public services, in complete break with any complicit consumerism.

  5. 5
    Article 5

    Accountability and personal exemplarity

    One cannot demand transparency from the State without applying it to oneself. The Founding Member commits to exemplary moral and financial probity in managing the Association's resources, accepting the principle of systematic and public accountability.

  6. 6
    Article 6

    Solidarity and collective action

    The Founding Member undertakes to contribute actively to monitoring work, citizen investigations and the outreach of the L'Étoile et la Cité platform, in order to build a peaceful collective force able to weigh durably on public decisions.

Sign the charter

The charter is signed online when you apply as a founding member, before paying the annual dues of 50 000 F CFA.

Become a founding member