2023-07-03 23:47:38
Senegalese President Macky Sall announced Monday evening that he will not be a candidate for a third term in the February 2024 presidential election, when Senegal was awaiting this decision under great tension.
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“My dear compatriots, my long and carefully considered decision is not to be a candidate in the next election of February 25, 2024,” he said during an address to the nation broadcast on public television, ending a suspension of several months. “Senegal is beyond me and it is full of leaders capable of pushing the country towards emergence,” he said.
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“There has been so much speculation, commented on my candidacy for this election (…) My priorities focused above all on the management of a country, of a coherent government team, and committed to action for emergence, especially in a socio-economic context. – difficult and uncertain economy,” he added. “I have a clear awareness and memory of what I have said, written and repeated, here and elsewhere, that is to say that the 2019 term was my second and last term,” he said. declared.
Elected in 2012, re-elected in 2019, Macky Sall had the Constitution revised in 2016. It stipulates that “no one can serve more than two consecutive terms”, but he explained that this did not concern him since he had served his first term. before the reform.
The head of state maintained the vagueness on his candidacy, while the country experienced its deadliest unrest in early June for years, killing at least 16 people. His opponents lent him the intention of running for a third term.
At the beginning of June, the opponent Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to 2 years in prison for having pushed a young woman under 21 to “debauchery”, a debt decision which currently makes him ineligible.
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