“We ask the president of the National Commission for the Census of Votes (CNRV) to suspend the publication of the results scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday) to allow us to identify all the irregularities that we have noted in the minutes.“, declared during a press conference, the deputy Déthié Fall.
The latter is a leader of the alliance formed by the coalitions Yewwi Askan Wi (liberate the people in Wolof) and Wallu Senegal (Save Senegal), led respectively by the main opponent Ousmane Sonko and ex-president Abdoulaye Wade (2000 -2012).
Aïda Mbodj, another leader of the alliance, evokes for her part a “ballot box stuffing” and of “prefabricated and unsigned minutes that they (power) created themselves“in localities in the north of the Senegal including Matam, Podor, Ranérou and Kanel, strongholds of the president, Macky Sall. The issue is about “200,000 votesshe says. The Senegalese people will oppose this massive fraud.“
“We are not going to accept a confiscation of victory. It is a massive fraud enterprise orchestrated by politicians with certainly the complicity of the administration.“Territorial, for his part denounced Ousmane Sonko.
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47% participation
Some seven million Senegalese were called to vote on Sunday, July 31, during the legislative elections. These aim to renew the 165 seats in the National Assembly, now largely controlled by the presidential coalition.
According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, turnout stood at 47%.
The results of the power and opposition camps stand in a pocket handkerchief, according to figures published by the local press.
The CNRV, headed by the president of the Court of Appeal of Dakar, must proclaim the results in the afternoon of Thursday, August 4. The legislative elections serve as a test 19 months before the presidential election.
The opposition claims to want to control Parliament to impose cohabitation on the power camp, which would constitute an unprecedented precedent in the country.
She also wants to push President Macky Sall to give up the project that has been lent to him to run for the 2024 ballot.
The head of state, elected in 2012 for seven years and re-elected in 2019 for five years, remains vague about his intentions.
He has promised to appoint a prime minister, a post he cut in 2019 before reinstating it in December 2021, in the party that won the elections.
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