2023-09-25 07:10:35
The notification of the removal of Ousmane Sonko from the electoral lists was filed on September 20 at the town hall of Dakar-Plateau.
Is Ousmane Sonko’s political future now sealed? The leader of Pastef, incarcerated since July 31 on seven charges including “calling for insurrection”, has been removed from the electoral lists and will therefore no longer be able to claim a candidacy for the presidential election on February 25, 2024.
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The bailiff filed the act of notification of his removal from the electoral lists on September 20 at the town hall of Dakar-Plateau, informs Le Quotidien. Les Echos, for its part, informs that the notification document was submitted to the sub-prefecture of Dakar-Plateau, due to lack of a receiver.
The bailiff, who received the notification since August 2, went through an obstacle course to file the notification, specifies the same source.
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The bailiff went to the Cité Keur Gorgui to the home of Ousmane Sonko, but according to Les Echos, the guard found on the scene sent him back to the special pavilion of the Main hospital. This, on the instructions of the head of protocol of the leader of Pastef.
Once at the Main hospital, the bailiff was turned away by the prison guard lieutenant who refused him access on the grounds that he did not have any notification from the Sébikotane prison registry.
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The authorities consider that since he was tried in absentia, his conviction is final, and therefore his eligibility jumps. Because the Electoral Code states that you must be a voter to be eligible.
According to the Minister of Justice, since he was tried in absentia, that is to say in his absence, Mr. Sonko’s conviction is final, and therefore his eligibility jumps.
A delisting, however, contested by the opponent’s camp and several jurists.
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