“There was great surprise among some Senegalese people,” reports Dakar News. A double surprise, even, which has in fact occupied the Senegalese press since its announcement on September 30.
Initially, with a view to the early legislative elections of November 17, the Alliance for the Republic (APR-Yaakaar), the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and Rewmi joined forces to set up a coalition. The APR-Yaakaar, founded in 2008 by the former Prime Minister and then President Macky Sall (from 2012 to last April), therefore chose to ally with the PDS, founded by his predecessor as president, Abdoulaye Wade (2000). -2012). The PDS is now led by his son, Karim Wade, since his exile in Qatar. Added to this duo is Rewmi, the party of former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck (2002-2004).
More “another surprise was, however, in the making”, continues the Dakar title, since Macky Sall was chosen as head of the national list of this coalition called “Takku Wallu Senegal”.
Elected in March on the promise of profound change, current president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on September 12 that new legislative elections would be held on November 17. By this gesture, the Senegalese president intended to obtain a majority
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