Senegal’s Macky Sall postpones presidential election
Al Jazeera
The vote was scheduled to take place on February 25.
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has postponed the presidential election that was scheduled to take place on February 25.
Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, the president announced he had cancelled the relevant electoral law, citing a dispute over the candidate list.
Sall said he signed a decree abolishing a measure from November 2023 that had set the election date.
“I will initiate an open national dialogue to bring together the conditions for a free, transparent and inclusive election in a peaceful and reconciled Senegal,” he said, without giving a new date.
The announcement comes as lawmakers investigate two Constitutional Council judges whose integrity in the election process has been questioned.
