[Le Recap] PASTEF comes out on top in the vast majority of voting centers

Senegal has been counting the votes in the legislative elections since Sunday evening. The new leaders are aiming for the largest possible majority to implement the agenda of rupture and social justice with which they were brought to power eight months ago.

Pastef comes out on top in a large majority of the first voting centers whose provisional results reach us as they are posted.

Pastef beats two heads of the opposition list, the mayor of Dakar Barthélémy Dias and the runner-up in the 2024 presidential election Amadou Ba, in their polling station, according to these results.

The head of government Ousmane Sonko largely wins in his office in Ziguinchor, these results indicate.

In Touba, Diourbel, Saint-Louis, Sedhiou, Diourbel, Mbour, Linguere and in the diaspora, the ruling party largely dominates its competing lists according to initial trends.

Reliable projections of the new Assembly could be available Monday morning thanks to the media. No significant incidents have been reported. The Takku Wallu Senegal coalition of former President Macky Sall, however, denounced in a press release a “massive fraud organized by Pastef”.

Various actors reported a participation rate typically lower than that of the presidential election in March (61.3%). In the 2022 legislative elections, 46.6% of those registered voted.