AA / Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
The main coalition of the Senegalese opposition Yewwi Askan wi (Yaw – Liberate the people) decided on Wednesday to participate in the legislative elections of July 31 without its holders on the national list, thus thawing a tense political situation since the rejection partial of its list of the next elections.
Since the official publication of the lists of candidates to participate in these elections, Yaw had demanded the total validation of his list as the only guarantee for the holding of the Legislative elections. A series of demonstrations including that of June 17 which caused the death of three people had been organized.
“On July 31 there will be elections and we are now moving resolutely towards this meeting,” said MP Ousmane Sonko on Wednesday during a press briefing organized on the occasion by the coalition.
“Our incumbents were dismissed because the ambition of the regime was to ensure that the main leaders of our coalition did not participate in these elections (…) I would like to reassure our supporters that our list of substitutes is there and that we we are present in the 54 departments, ”continued the deputy, promising a spectacular defeat for the presidential movement.
The coalition has also pledged to pacify the political climate by also canceling the demonstrations this Wednesday which had been banned by the authorities, such as that of June 17.
“It is not the prohibitions of the prefects that motivated our decision. It was after listening to the Senegalese people that we took this decision,” said MP Aissatou Mbodj.
She cited the preparation of the Tabaski festival (Aid el kebir), the school calendar with in particular the upcoming exams and the good offices of social mediators as the main reasons for the cancellation of the demonstrations which were scheduled in several localities of the country. .
Considering these legislative elections as a referendum against bad governance under the Macky Sall regime and his desire to run for a third term, MP Sonko called on the Senegalese to a concert of pots and horns Thursday from 8 p.m. to ring the start of the end of the regime.
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