The Senegalese Constitutional Council aligned itself on Thursday March 7 with March 24 for the holding of the presidential election, it said in a press release.
She had initially chosen a date different from that set by the presidency.
The Constitutional Council had set the presidential election for March 31, a week after that decided by the presidency, in a decision rendered on Wednesday.
The Constitutional Council said in a statement Thursday that it had only "compensated with the inertia of the administration" by holding back March 31, and 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 President Macky Sall's mandate on April 2, said the Constitutional Council.
With this adjustment, the Senegalese can see a way out of the crisis caused by the postponement of the election initially scheduled for February 25.
With AFP
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