Senegal: What’s behind March election date? • FRANCE 24 English
Essentially makisa has brought this election date forward because the Constitutional Council the highest court in the land said he had to the elections were initially scheduled for February and back then president makis uh delayed or suspended the electoral process indefinitely citing corruption allegations against the Constitutional Council he then organized a national
Dialogue to determine a new date and the outcome was this the outcome of this was a recommendation that the election be held in June now that very same constitutional Council the one accused of corruption back in February has now effectively forced the president uh to
Hold or to set a new date for the elections on March 24th as you mentioned so that’s kind of the official reason perhaps uh kind of public pressure on the president as well could have played some kind of role um perhaps the kind of international pressure too but but kind
Of Legally speaking this is really down to the decision of the Constitutional Council uh whose voice is ultimately kind of supreme when it comes to questions around the electoral process
Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Thursday agreed March 24 as the new date for the West African nation’s presidential election, it said in a statement. Uncertainty over the date of the vote has gripped the West African country since early February, when the authorities’ thwarted bid to postpone the February 25 poll by 10 months provoked widespread unrest and warnings of democratic backsliding. France 24’s Sam Bradpiece takes a look at how and why the new March date has been set upon.
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