Protest Looms As Macky Sall Postpones Senegal’s Presidential Election Indefinitely

The President of Senegal, Macky Sall, has postponed the February 25, 2024, presidential election in his country.

He announced this in a nationwide broadcast on Saturday.

According to Sall, the shift was due to a dispute over candidates shortlisted for the presidential race across political parties.

The president assured the nation of conducting a “national dialogue” that would produce a genuine list but did not announce any new date for the polls.

The development has been criticised and strongly condemned by politicians and civil society organisations who tagged the shift as an “institutional coup”.

The CSOs have arranged a city centre protest on Sunday to compel the president to withdraw his decision.

” The selected candidates call on the Senegalese, civil society
and failed candidates to join them tomorrow at 3 p.m. on the VDN
Saint-Lazare for a march towards the city center in order to push Macky Sall to reverse his decision,
which is illegal and illegitimate,” a group led by Kilifeu Guii tweeted on Saturday.

Sall assured he was not running for a third term in office.