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Senegal candidates, civil society reject president's dialogue bid
FRANCE 24 English
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2/23/2024
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Senegal's president says he'll be leaving office as planned at the end of his term in April.
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The clarification from Macky Sall comes weeks after he announced the presidential vote schedule
00:10
for this month would be delayed. A date for the next election has yet to be set and it's unclear
00:16
who will be taking over once the president's term runs out. We can now go across to France 24, Sam
00:22
Bradpee standing by in Dakar for us. Sam, good afternoon. What is the opposition, where you have
00:27
been saying? Well, the opposition have largely denounced Macky Sall's plan to hold a national
00:33
dialogue, a step which the president says is absolutely necessary before a new election date
00:39
can be unveiled. And many of the opposition candidates who were supposed to be running
00:45
in the presidential election this Sunday have said they would refuse to participate.
00:52
They accused the president of essentially using the national dialogue as a way to buy more time
00:56
in office and their demand is that a new election date is fixed as soon as possible. As I already
01:03
mentioned, this election was supposed to have been held this Sunday, but Macky Sall delayed the vote
01:09
citing accusations levelled at the Constitutional Council, accusations that many Senegalese people
01:15
greeted with kind of incredulity, really. They just see it as a ploy for the president to remain
01:21
in office. So we remain to see kind of what will happen as far as this national dialogue is
01:27
concerned. The will of many people here in Senegal is simply to have that election held as soon as
01:33
possible, especially before the end of the president's official mandate on April the 2nd.
01:39
And what happens if Macky Sall does step down on the 2nd of April and there are no
01:46
elections scheduled between now and then? What happens? Well, this is one of the kind of big
01:53
questions which is hanging over this whole political saga. Macky Sall said in his address
01:59
to the nation on Thursday evening that he would not remain in office after April the 2nd, the
02:04
official end of his term date. But exactly who replaces him should there not be elections by
02:11
then is still really unclear and it's likely to be one of the things discussed during this
02:17
national dialogue which is set to be held early next week. But again the caveat is that there
02:26
simply can't be any consensus if this national dialogue is boycotted. So we're looking at what
02:34
seems to be somewhat of a stalemate at this point in time. It's unclear who will replace Macky Sall.
02:40
I'm sure the president will likely be hoping that it will be a close ally in the event that he does
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step down.
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