In Senegal, will the legislative elections of November 17 be a second round of the presidential election of March 2024? While one of the opposition coalitions, Takku Wallu Senegal, has nominated the former head of state, Macky Sall, as head of the national list, Pastef, in power, has chosen Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to win a majority in the National Assembly, giving this election the appearance of a duel between these two major figures in Senegalese politics.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
Macky Sallhead of the list for the coalition which brings together his party the APR, but also the PDS of Karim Wade and a hundred other movements, it was a “ natural choice “, affirms Pape Mahawa Diouf, one of the executives of the APR who assures that the ex-president ” his personality and his record » did « unanimity », with the members of this alliance on which he has worked extensively in recent days. “ He is a very strong personality, so logically it was he who came to carry the coalition’s electoral project “, he continues.
Real start of the campaign
During the last two alternations, the Senegalese have always confirmed in the legislative elections the choice made during the presidential election, recalls political science professor Moussa Diaw: “ Six months later, there is little chance that the Senegalese have changed their minds “, he says.
Opposition divided
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