Senegalese citizens were to go to the polls on February 25 to choose their 5th President of the Republic, this will not be the case. While everything was in place for the start of the electoral campaign, the President of the Republic, Macky Sall, during an address to the Nation this Saturday, decided to stop the electoral process by signing “decree no. 2024-106 of February 3, 2024 repealing decree no. 2023-2283 of November 29, 2023 convening the electoral body. Macky Sall justifies his action by a crisis between the National Assembly and the Constitutional Council. 

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By Dieynaba KANE / dkane@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Ndey T. SOSSEH