‘We will vote’: Protesters in Dakar decry Senegal’s Macky Sall for postponing presidential election

‘We will vote’: Protesters in Dakar decry Senegal’s Macky Sall for postponing presidential election

In the streets of the sagales capital protesters spent most of Sunday afternoon on the run from the police supporters of various sagales opposition parties fled tear gas after turning out on mass to Mark what would have been the start of the campaign period had president makis not scrapped the

Election the president is violating the constitution in a very flagrant manner senales people are here to protest peacefully against Injustice and were fired on with tear gas jeams were deployed in large numbers to prevent demonstrators from gathering at the official protest site the demonstrators themselves set up barricades in

Response these scenes went on for hours many said they were determined to fight on until an election is held macki wait until the last moment to delay the election we will force vote through on February 25th we will vote Tio alisan Sal an independent opposition candidate also attended the protest he

Said he would seek to legally challenge makis Sal’s decision to delay the presidential election what’s happening is a revision that aims to prolong the term of the president contrary to the framework of the Constitution today we cannot accept that the Constitution which gives the president his powers is violated

It’s been a day of high political tension and we get the sense that this will only continue that the fire will continue to burn until the president makis Sal sets a date for this election and until some kind of real political settlement is reached

Protesters in Dakar on Sunday decried Senegalese President Macky Sall for postponing the country’s presidential vote, turning out en masse on the day that would have been the start of the campaign period. FRANCE 24 correspondent Sam Bradpiece reports that protesters spent most of the afternoon on the run from police, who fired tear gas and prevented demonstrators from gathering at the official protest site.

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