Senegalese Constitutional Council accepts the date of March 24 for the presidential election. President Macky Sall had initially chosen a date different from that set by the presidency.
The Constitutional Council said it had only "compensated with the inertia of the administration" by holding back March 31. It suggested that the executive had meanwhile remedied this state of affairs by issuing decrees summoning the electorate on the 24th. The decrees taken by the president are "in accordance with (the) requirement" to organize the vote before the end of Sall's mandate.