Video the Senegalese elect their deputies on Sunday during a ballot having the value of a test before the presidential election of February 2024.
In Senegal, some 7 million voters are called upon to renew their deputies on Sunday, July 31. A ballot that the opposition wants to take advantage of to impose a cohabitation on President Macky Sall and slow down the inclinations that she lends to seek a third term in 2024. The Head of State, elected in 2012 for seven years and re -elected In 2019 for five years, maintains the vagueness on its intentions. But he promised to appoint a Prime Minister (position he had eliminated and then restored in December 2021) within the victorious training of the legislative elections.
Eight coalitions are in the running, including those of the majority and Yewwi Askan Wi (“Liberating the people”, in Wolof), the main opposition alliance, formed around Ousmane Sonko, who arrived third in the 2019 presidential election . This has made an agreement with the Wallu Senegal coalition (“saving Senegal”), led by ex-president Abdoulaye Wade. The least well placed in a department undertakes to support the other with the objectives of “obtaining a parliamentary majority” and “imposing government cohabitation”.