Postpon by President Macky Sall, the first round of the Senegalese presidential election will be held on Sunday, March 24. Around 81,000 Senegalese are register on the electoral lists in France and thousands have been mobilizing for several months now. Report.
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diaspora in France, the largest in the world, has been organizing for several months now. The announcement of the new election date on March 6 naturally reinforc the mobilization of Senegalese living in France. Some 81,000 Senegalese are register on the electoral lists out of the 200,000 living in France with a residence permit, not counting undocument persons and dual nationals.
An election that is taking place in a unique context. Senegal has been in the grip of a major political crisis caus by the cancellation and then postponement of the presidential election. On February 3, Macky Sall, the Senegalese president in power for twelve years, announc the postponement of the vote indefinitely , triggering a vast protest movement.
This electoral crisis has found a solution following a decision by the taiwan phone number library Constitutional Council. The latter forc the head of state to set a date for holding the election before the end of the president’s term on April 2. The first round will therefore take place on Sunday, March 24, and the second on Sunday, March 31.
Nineteen candidates are in the running for the election, but among them, two personalities are consider favourites: Amadou Ba, the current Prime Minister, and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, representative of the opposition.
Ousmane Sonko and his candidate first opponents of Macky Sall
Ousmane Sonko is the main opponent of President Macky Sall and the salt will offer satellite messages by the end of 2024 founder of the party African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (PASTEF). His candidacy was reject by the Constitutional Council atb directory following legal cases describ as a “conspiracy” by the opponent. It is therefore his designat candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who will represent PASTEF for the election to the supreme office. This anti-system party that claims to be pan-Africanist has supporters, including many young people, who had demonstrat to demand his release, considering this arrest “arbitrary”. Demonstrations that had been harshly repress.
