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Senegal’s Supreme Court overturned a judgment that had put detained political opponent Ousmane Sonko back in the 2024 presidential race. The ruling said that the case would be retried.
Senegal’s Supreme Court overturned a judgment that had put detained political opponent Ousmane Sonko back in the 2024 presidential race. The ruling said that the case would be retried.
The court’s president Ali Cire Ba said that the court overturned and annulled the decision of the Ziguinchor court of October 12 and returned the case to the Dakar High Court for a retrial. Last month, a court in Ziguinchor, the southern city where Sonko is mayor, removed the opponent’s removal from the electoral roll.
The state had appealed the lower court’s ruling. Obtaining sponsorships is an essential step for presidential candidates. Sonko, 49, was on June 1 convicted in absentia of morally corrupting a young person and sentenced to two years in prison. He denounced the trial as a plot to exclude him from the election.
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In late July, he was arrested and detained on other charges, including fomenting insurrection, criminally associating with a terrorist body and endangering state security.
