Presidential election in Senegal: the civil society platform calls on the authorities

2024-03-20T22:52:13.582Z

Highlights: Presidential election in Senegal: the civil society platform calls on the authorities. The platform asks him to take measures for the smooth running of the ballot in order to secure the results. Seven million Senegalese are called upon next Sunday to choose, between the ruling candidate and eighteen competitors. Cheikh Tidiane Dieye announced this Wednesday that he was withdrawing his candidacy in favor of that of Bassirou Diomaye Faye. He wants to ensure, he said, a victory in the first round.

The platform asks him to take measures for the smooth running of the ballot in order to secure the results.

Presidential election in Senegal: the civil society platform calls on the authorities

The platform asks him to take measures for the smooth running of the ballot in order to secure the results.

After the tense pre-electoral context of recent months, civil society organizations want the State to do everything possible to put in place a peaceful and transparent election.

By: RFI Follow

Seven million Senegalese are called upon next Sunday to choose, between the ruling candidate and eighteen competitors, a new president with whom to turn the page on an endless political confrontation.

The eighteen men and one woman who are roaming

Senegal

until Friday in colorful processions offer an alternative between change and continuity.

Presidential candidate Cheikh Tidiane Dieye announced this Wednesday that he was withdrawing his candidacy in favor of that of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, candidate of the dissolved Pastef party.

He wants to ensure, he said, a victory in the first round.

Cheikh Tidiane Dieye will continue to campaign for Bassirou Diomaye Faye on the ground, with a stop tomorrow in Ziguinchor.

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Civil society, for its part, is vigilant.

Mamadou Mbodj, the coordinator of the F24 platform, reminds our correspondent in Dakar,

Léa-Lisa Westerhoff

, of the crucial points to ensure a credible vote: “

The quality of the ink: is it indelible?
If it is not, there is the possibility of multiple votes.
What will be the attitude of officials of the territorial administration, the judicial administration, the electoral administration to organize the elections, to send the minutes, to count the votes

?
This is a significant concern.
Also the location of the polling stations, which are very numerous.
We also expect from the government that the internet will not be cut off to allow the reporting of results data and reports.

Presidential election in Senegal: the civil society platform calls on the authorities

Presidential election in Senegal: the civil society platform calls on the authorities

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