Senegal: start of the campaign for the legislative elections

The Senegalese must vote to elect their deputies on July 31.

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This Sunday, July 10 marks the start of the official campaign for the legislative elections.

Eight lists are in the running for the ballot set for July 31.

165 MP seats will be at stake. The candidates therefore now have three weeks to convince, after a very stormy pre-campaign period.

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With our correspondent in Dakar,

Controversy over the sponsorship system, political and legal battles over

, demonstrations and pot concerts, arrests of elected representatives from the main opposition coalition… The pre-campaign raised fears of escalation.

Finally, Yewwi Askan Wi will go to the elections, but without its national list of incumbents: the headliners, in particular Ousmane Sonko,

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As for the ruling coalition, Benno Bokk Yaakar, it will participate without its national list of substitutes, challenged for lack of parity.

After his breakthrough in the local elections in January, Yewwi Askan Wi's objective is to impose cohabitation on President Macky Sall.

And this thanks to an alliance with the Wallu Senegal coalition formed around the PDS of former President Abdoulaye Wade.

The majority say they are confident.

Smaller, the other coalitions in the running are trying to make themselves heard, such as AAR Senegal – Alliance for a Rupture Assembly – which presents itself as a third way, for this election which will be the last before the presidential election of 2024. background: the debate on a possible third candidacy of the Head of State.

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