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In an important twist of events, Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition narrowly won last month’s legislative election. It has kept its absolute majority by narrow margins in parliament thanks to a new alliance that was brokered
In an important twist of events, Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition narrowly won last month’s legislative election. It has kept its absolute majority by narrow margins in parliament thanks to a new alliance that was brokered.
Sall’s coalition has 82 deputies, down from its 125 deputies elected in 2017, out of the 165 in the Assembly. It obtained an absolute majority of 83 deputies, against 82 in total for the opposition, with the defecting of one opposition deputy, Pape Diop, former president of the National Assembly and Senate.
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Mr. Diop announced that he had taken the decision to join the presidential camp to avoid Senegal a blockage in the functioning of institutions. The opposition alliance won 82 seats in the parliament, including 56 for the “Yewwi Askan Wi” coalition led by main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and 24 for the “Wallu Senegal” coalition, led by the former president.
