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