The postponement of the presidential election has plunged Senegal into a context of uncertainty. Local entrepreneurs fear that the situation will have a lasting impact on the country's economy.

In West Africa, Senegal is considered an economic hub. The country is in second place, after Côte d'Ivoire, among the economies of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) In 2021, after the arrest of the leader of the Pastef party, now dissolved, demonstrators attack French multinationals.