Vote count underway in Senegal’s tightly contested presidential election • FRANCE 24 English
Senagal has gone through a period of really unprecedented political unrest in recent years dozens of people have been killed in in well mostly in the context of protests uh since 2021 and most of those killed have either been protesters or just completely innocent bystanders now for a country traditionally seen as
A beacon of democracy and stability within West Africa for example it’s one of the only places uh not to have seen a civil war or a this recent trend of political unrest has really been quite worrying for many observers who see Sagal as an important player in kind of wider Regional
Geopolitics so really with the deployment of thousands of local and international election observers uh across the country uh on Sunday uh this election is really being seen as a true test of democracy and and as I’ve mentioned already the fact that the vote has gone well uh at least up until this
Point uh is an encouraging sign
Senegal began counting votes in Sunday’s presidential election as the two main rivals said they were confident of winning a poll that followed several years of unrest and a political crisis.
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This is good. Hope democracy is fully reinstated and I wish the best for the Senegalese people.
There's always the people's choice and another the colonisers choice how could this be explained as a tight election
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