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Seventy-nine people filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal as the deadline was over. According to some reports, the body that receives the deposit cheques of 30 million FCFA (45,000 euros) required to run for the presidency, received 79 applications
Seventy-nine people filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal as the deadline was over. According to some reports, the body that receives the deposit cheques of 30 million FCFA (45,000 euros) required to run for the presidency, received 79 applications.
The candidates in the fray in the election to be held on 25th February include Amadou Ba, a member of the ruling coalition and Senegal’s current prime minister, imprisoned opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, Karim Wade (son of former president Abdoulaye Wade) and Idrissa Seck, who came second in the 2019 presidential election.
President since 2012, Macky Sall announced in July that he would not run for another term. He has appointed Amadou Ba to represent the majority. The Senegalese administration has refused to issue the necessary documents for a candidacy to the representative of Sonko (49). He is the central figure in a standoff with the state that has lasted more than two years. Ousmane Sonko has submitted his candidacy to the Constitutional Council, Ousseynou Ly. Further details about the status of the application are not known.
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Sonko has been in prison since the end of July on various charges, including calling for insurrection. He said that the cases were fabricated to keep him out of the presidential election. The Constitutional Council is due to announce the list of presidential candidates by 20 January.
