China News Service, March 28. According to AFP, on the 27th local time, the Senegalese National Counting Committee announced the preliminary first-round vote counting results, which showed that the candidate of the "President Diomaye" alliance Basilu Diomaye. Faye won the presidential election with 54.28% of the votes.
Data map: Basilu Diomaye Faye, candidate of the "President Diomaye" alliance.
According to reports, on the same day, Senegal’s National Counting Commission announced that in the presidential election held on the 24th, Basilou Diomaye Faye won 54.28% of the votes, far ahead of Senegal’s ruling coalition candidate and former Prime Minister Amadou ·Based 35.79% of the vote.
According to reports, the final results of the presidential election will be announced in the next few days after confirmation by the Senegalese Constitutional Council.
According to reports, if elected, the 44-year-old Faye will become the youngest president in Senegal’s history.
According to reports, Senegal held a presidential election on the 24th, with 19 candidates including former Prime Minister Amadou Ba vying for the presidential position. According to Senegal’s electoral law, the president is directly elected by voters, and the candidate who obtains more than half of the votes wins the election. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates will advance to the second round. The term of the President of Senegal was originally 7 years, renewable for one term. According to the constitutional amendment passed by the Senegalese Parliament in 2016, the presidential term elected in 2019 was changed to 5 years.