Senegal candidates, civil society reject president’s dialogue bid • FRANCE 24 English

Senegal candidates, civil society reject president’s dialogue bid • FRANCE 24 English

Sagal’s President says he’ll be leaving office as planned at the end of his term in April the clarification from makis Sal comes weeks after he announced the presidential vote schedule for this month would be delayed a date for the next election has yet to be set and it’s

Unclear who will be taking over once the president’s term runs out we can now go across France 24 Sam bradie standing by in Daka for us Sam good afternoon what is the opposition where you have been saying well the opposition have largely denounced Maki sa’s plan to hold a

National dialogue a step which the President says is absolutely necessary before a new election date can be unveiled and many of the opposition candidates uh who were supposed to be running in the presidential election this Sunday um have said they would refuse to participate they accused the president of essentially using the

National dialogue as a way to buy more time in office and their demand is that a new election date is fixed as soon as possible as I already mentioned this election was supposed to have been held this Sunday but makis delayed the vote uh citing accusations leveled at the Constitutional Council accusations that

Many sagales people greeted with kind of incredulity really they just see it as a ploy uh for the president to remain in office um so we remain to see kind of what will happen as far as this National dialogue is concerned uh the will of many people here in Sagal is simply to

Have that election held as soon as possible especially before the end of the president’s official mandate on April the 2nd and what happens if makis Sal does does step down on the 2nd of April and there are no election schedule between now and then what what

Happens well this is one of the kind of big questions which is hanging over this whole political Saga makis Sal said in his address to the ation on Thursday evening that he would not remain in office after April the 2nd the official end of his term date but exactly who

Replaces him should there not be elections by then is still really unclear and it’s likely to be one of the things discussed during this National dialogue which is set to be held early next week but again the caveat um is that what there can there simply can’t be any consensus uh if this

Dialogue is boycotted so we’re looking at what seems to be somewhat of a stalemate at this point in time it’s unclear who will replace mcki um I’m sure the president will likely be hoping um that it will be a close Ally in the event that he does step back

Most candidates in Senegal’s delayed presidential election and a large civil society collective said Friday they would refuse to take part in talks proposed by President Macky Sall to decide a date for the vote he postponed earlier this month.
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