Senegal: President calls off February 25th election
Senegal's President Macky Sall has announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential elections scheduled for February 25, just hours before the official start of the election campaign. teleSUR
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00:00 President Macky Sall announced an indefinite postponement of the presidential election
00:04 scheduled for February 25th, just hours before official campaigning was due to start.
00:11 I have signed Decree 2024-106 of February 3, 2024, repealing Decree 2023-2283 of November
00:23 29, 2023, convening the electoral body.
00:28 For my part, my solemn undertaking not to run in the presidential election remains unchanged.
00:37 In the Senegalese capital, residents are divided over President Macky Sall's shock decision
00:42 to postpone the presidential election, a force in the history of Senegal since independence.
00:46 On the one hand, I agree.
00:51 Why do I agree?
00:53 Because there are candidates who have declared that they have only one nationality, and now
00:57 after verification, we've discovered that one candidate has two nationalities.
01:02 So that's a problem.
01:03 As for the Senegalese Democratic Party, they also suspected corruption on behalf of the
01:07 Constitutional Council.
01:09 These are all problems that have led to the postponement of elections in Senegal.
01:13 No, it's not a good decision.
01:17 Whatever he might do, he should have respected the democratic calendar, and whatever, because
01:21 what we have seen in our country is that we have a crisis within Benoit Boko-Yakar, not
01:26 an institutional crisis.
01:28 That's the reality.
01:29 So he should have vitally respected the electoral calendar, and let us go to the polls and let
01:33 the best men win.