In jail until ten days before the vote, a political outsider has been elected president on the first ballot, As detailed results from around the country trickled in, Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister and standard bearer for the ruling Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY) alliance, could draw only one conclusion. By the afternoon of 25 March, less than 24 hours after the polls had closed, it was clear that he had been decisively defeated by Bassirou Diomaye Faye of the radical opposition Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail, l éthique et la fraternité (Pastef).
The top court s rejection of plans to postpone the vote steers the country back to constitutionalism, It took President Macky Sall less than a day to accept the ruling by the Conseil constitutionnel on 15 February that the postponement of the presidential election and the extension of his tenure was illegal.
The President s mismanagement of his succession crashes the country s reputation for stability and its growth prospects, President Macky Sall s announcement on 3 February postponing this month s elections has wrecked what was left of his legacy and is undermining Senegal s governance amid multiple clashes between activists and state security forces engulfing at least eight cities. Since the beginning of February, at least three people have died in clashes with security forces.
Electoral setbacks have left Macky Sall with a razor-thin majority, while he faces outcry over a suspected third-term bid, A sorry spectacle . That is how president Macky Sall qualified the scenes of fighting lawmakers at the opening of the Assemblée nationale, Senegal s 165-strong parliament, on 12 September. For the first time in 60 years, gendarmes entered the parliament building, to put an end to the disorder.