The Senegalese opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye largely won in the first round of the presidential election with 54.28% of the votes, far ahead of the government candidate Amadou Ba (35.79%), indicate the provisional final results announced on Wednesday 27 March.
The third, Aliou Mamadou Dia, candidate of the Unity and Rally Party, received only 2.8% of the votes, according to figures announced to the Dakar court by the president of the National Votes Census Commission, Amady Diouf.
The victory of the anti-system opponent, still in prison ten days before Sunday's election, must now be validated by the Constitutional Council, which could be done in a few days depending on possible appeals.
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This victory was already understood after the unofficial publication of partial results. The publication by the National Voting Census Commission, under the jurisdiction of justice, confirms the extent of this.
With AFP
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