{"id":15950,"date":"2024-02-23T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/senegals-macky-sall-vows-to-step-down-when-official-term-ends\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:50:41","slug":"senegals-macky-sall-vows-to-step-down-when-official-term-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/senegals-macky-sall-vows-to-step-down-when-official-term-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal\u2019s Macky Sall vows to step down when official term ends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senegal President Macky Sall said on Thursday that April 2 will be the end of his mandate as president of the West African nation. He added, however, that it was unlikely the election of a new president will be completed before then. <\/p>\n

Sall\u2019s announcement could assuage fears he was planning to extend his rule in the country, an issue that had contributed to a tense political climate, and sometimes\u00a0violent protests\u00a0in a country seen as one of the stable democracies in the region. <\/p>\n

His announcement came after the country\u2019s Constitutional Council, the highest election authority, ruled last week that a 10-month postponement of the vote was unlawful. The election had initially been scheduled for Feb. 25. <\/p>\n

\u201cApril 2, 2024, will be the end of my term at the head of the country, the end of my binding relationship with the Senegalese people as president of the republic. I would like this debate to be clearly settled,\u201d Sall said during an interview on national television. <\/p>\n

Sall said however that he cannot issue a decree to hold the election before a national dialogue takes place. <\/p>\n

The dialogue, which would include civil society groups, political parties and candidates, is set to begin on Monday and will likely finish by Tuesday, he said. <\/p>\n

He said that candidates who had not been approved by the Constitutional Council would also be invited to the dialogue. <\/p>\n

Prominent opposition figures including the firebrand jailed politician Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade, the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade, were excluded from the list of 19 candidates approved for the election. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we find consensus, I will issue the decree immediately to set the date; if consensus is not found, I will refer the matter to the Constitutional Council,\u201d Sall said. <\/p>\n

But he added he did not think the process would be finished before April 2. <\/p>\n

In case the process runs beyond that date, he said: \u201cWhat is certain is that there will be no void. We cannot leave a country without a president.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make the dichotomy clearly between the election and the end of the mandate,\u201d he said, adding that he will follow the guidance of the Constitutional Council on the matter. <\/p>\n

Asked about opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who has been in detention since April, Sall said he could benefit from a provisional release in order to participate in the dialogue. <\/p>\n

Sall last week promised he would\u00a0abide by the Constitutional Council\u2019s request\u00a0for the vote to be scheduled as soon as possible, after the crisis\u00a0triggered violent street protests\u00a0and warnings of authoritarian overreach. <\/p>\n\n

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Senegal President Macky Sall said on Thursday that April 2 will be the end of his mandate as president of the West African nation. He added, however, that it was unlikely the election of a new president will be completed before then. Sall\u2019s announcement could assuage fears he was planning to extend his rule in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}