DECRYPTION – The party of the prime minister and the president elected in March overwhelmingly won the legislative elections held on Sunday.
The Senegalese press is lost in qualifiers, between raid, tidal wave or triumph, to evoke the clear victory of the presidential party in the legislative elections. « Senegal Is The Sonko » (« Senegal is Sonko »), summary The Daily in reference to Ousmane Sonko, the charismatic prime minister and leader of Pastef. The results are not yet official but the projections only give the opposition a bare minimum. According to the figures, the party which already controlled the executive would win 130, or even 140 seats out of the 160 in the National Assembly.
The coalition led by former president Macky Sall is credited with 10 to 15 deputies. Those of Amadou Ba, the former presidential candidate where he received 35% of the votes, or of Barthélémy Dias, ex-mayor of Dakar, will only have a large handful of elected officials. The two men, beaten in their own Dakar polling station, have already recognized their defeat and congratulated the…
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