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Police fire tear gas on Dakar protest following Senegal’s postponed presidential vote • FRANCE 24

  • February 4, 2024



Police fire tear gas on Dakar protest following Senegal’s postponed presidential vote • FRANCE 24

We’ve had to move location several times because in many parts of the city center the air has been thick uh with the smell of teargas a number of fires have broken out uh and there really is a tension here between the supporters and the police who’ve been deployed in massive

Numbers uh essentially to crack down on them we managed to speak to one opposition leader who said that protesting was legitimate in the face of what he described as a dictatorship under the current president Maki SA as a reminder makis announced over the weekend that he was suspending sagal’s

Electoral process uh which many people uh says has crossed the line in terms of the Integrity uh of the country’s democracy

Opposition party supporters and police clashed in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Sunday after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election set for February 25, sparking a wave of international concern.

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  4. In fact, Macky Sall himself triggered all the issues. He plotted with the PDS. Macky Sall himself was a member of PDS. PDS candidate, currently in Qatar after being jailed and exiled by Macky Sall, accused the Constitutional Concil of corruption after his bet was rejected for his french citizenship. Macky Sall instructed the MPs of his party to join the PDS to vote a law to investigate the supposed bribery of members of the CC. And guess who they say bribed the C.C? The candidate that Macky Sall himself chose for his party!!!!

    Macky Sall's goal is to extend his presidency, take time to juge and disqualify the popular candidate chosen by Sonko party (he is currently unfairly in prison too), bring back PDS's candidate to split the opposition forces and finally change his own unpopular candidate. All that, because he senses that Sonko's side would win the election if held now and make him pay for his crimes

  8. 😂😂😂that went well, Macky
    😂😂😂 macky ain't even hiding it😂😂😂 i wonder who advised him to do it??😂😂😂 Macky is bringing his election process into disrepute!😂😂

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