Senegal’s Constitutional Council overturns delay of Feb. 25 presidential poll • FRANCE 24

Senegal’s Constitutional Council overturns delay of Feb. 25 presidential poll • FRANCE 24

Yes so as you just mentioned the Constitutional Council says that makis say’s decree is contradicting the Constitution and the same goes for the decision that had been taken in Parliament to postpone the elections they were supposed to be held in just uh 10 days from from from today um several

Opposition presidential candidates and lawmakers had filed a number of legal challenges to counter the delay um and uh that includes maris’s extended mandate which some critics said uh would have been or would be an Institutional group so what does this mean um the role of the Constitutional council is is very

Important it’s the guardian of the Constitution and it’s also acting as a referee in the electoral process in Sagal so it decides for example which candidate can stand and which can’t for example so it’s very important and this decision this announcement could really make things difficult for makis Sal and

Is and his government and we’ll have to see what happens next but uh we might see a dispute about the validity of this argument from both sides the government May argue that the National Assembly and the president’s decision will take president and the Constitutional Council will argue otherwise but either way um

This is a very significant development and and we’ll see we’ll see what happens next probably tomorrow yeah significant development indeed also some political opponents have been released tonight M yeah exactly we don’t really know how many political opponents um but it seems like there are some very significant

Figures that are on the list such as um Mr San who is the coordinator of an important citizens opposition movement and also the mayor of a neighborhood in that car and some members of the dissolved past opposition party which is beheaded by by Usman sonko um it’s

Important to remind the viewers that um that Sena has really been um arresting um several hundreds of of opposition figures um some rights groups even argued that it’s been around a thousand people um in recent years and um now you could see it in two sides this could

Either be a sign that Sagal is listening to International pressure such as uh from France from the US or the United Nations um and also from the really strong criticism that has um come from from human rights groups such as Amnesty International who’ve been really concerned but at the same time it could

Also be a political gesture a move to to calm the opposition slightly to the situation down overall and to show that you know the government would be would be open open to dialogue but again we will we will see what happens next

Senegal’s top election authority on Thursday voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for February 25 and its rescheduling for December, ruling that the moves were unconstitutional. Sira Thierij has the latest from the capital, Dakar.

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