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The backup of the country's main opposition leader has been elected president of Senegal

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  How a taxman released from prison 10 days before the election defeated the prime minister Senegal's new president became former tax inspector Bassirou Diomai Faye. He proposed "cleaning up the political class," renegotiating oil and gas contracts, and changing the national currency. The main opposition candidate Bassirou Diomai Fay, who turned 44 on March 25, became the new president of Senegal following the March 24 elections. Although Senegal's General Directorate of Elections has not even published interim results (it will release the official results within a week, tentatively on Friday, March 29), international media have already reported Faye's victory. The opposition leader was congratulated on his victory by his main rival, with whom Fai was expected to fight in the second round - 62-year-old candidate from the coalition of current President Macky Sall Benno Bokk Yakaar, the country's prime minister from 2022 to 2024 Amadou Ba. He left his post as pr

Senegal will hold presidential elections on Sunday

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Senegal is holding presidential elections on Sunday. There are 17 candidates vying for the top post. In the favorites - an associate of the current president Macky Salleh and a confederate of the country's main opposition Ousmane Sonko The most scandalous election in the history of Senegal March 24 is presidential election day in Senegal, one of Africa's most stable democracies. But this time the vote is fraught with scandal: usually elections are held in February, and the 2024 vote was also scheduled for February 25, but three weeks before the election, head of state Macky Sall said he had decided to postpone it indefinitely. The reason, Sal said, was "confusion about the candidates." In January, the Constitutional Council approved a list of presidential candidates without including influential opposition leaders, sparking public discontent. "These difficult conditions could seriously undermine the credibility of the ballot, sowing the seeds of pre- and post-ele

June elections proposed during Senegal dialogue to end political crisis

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Senegal has been thrown into crisis since the president attempted to push the February 25 elections till December. A national dialogue panel in Senegal has proposed holding elections in early June, the first such proposal since President Macky Sall attempted to push the February 25 elections till December. In early February, Sall, who is serving his second term and has said he would not run again, announced the postponement of the elections. But Senegal’s highest election authority, the Constitutional Council, rejected that move and ordered the government to set a new election date as soon as possible. On Tuesday, the panel sat as part of a two-day national dialogue that Sall called earlier this week, aiming at fostering trust among the candidates and the population. Civil, political, and religious leaders attended, but almost all of the candidates on the ballot refused to participate. The panel proposed holding the vote on June 2. Sall has said he will step down by April 2, which is t