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Senegalese presidential candidates yesterday (Sunday) cast their ballots in a symbolic vote organized by a civil society organization to denounce the postponement of the presidential election. The country’s election was scheduled for last Sunday
Senegalese presidential candidates yesterday (Sunday) cast their ballots in a symbolic vote organized by a civil society organization to denounce the postponement of the presidential election. The country’s election was scheduled for last Sunday.
The presidential candidates who took part slipped their ballot papers into a box bearing the words RIP 25 February. Some young Senegalese protesters defied a ban on their demonstration and gathered on the streets of Dakar to condemn the postponement. On February 3, Senegalese President Macky Sall postponed the vote in a televised speech to the nation.
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The postponement was rejected by opposition leaders who led a protest against it, resulting in violent clashes with security forces, arrests, and mobile internet cuts that further deepened political tensions in one of Africa’s most stable democracies. This year’s election, unlike previous years, has been dogged by controversies from deadly protests that resulted in Sall announcing that he would not seek a third term, to the disqualification of two opposition leaders.
