{"id":16584,"date":"2024-03-07T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/senegal-sets-election-date-after-protests-sparked-by-delay\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:48:40","slug":"senegal-sets-election-date-after-protests-sparked-by-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/senegal-sets-election-date-after-protests-sparked-by-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal sets election date after protests sparked by delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country\u2019s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,\u201d the statement read.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The election was initially slated for February 25 but\u00a0was postponed by Sall, sparking protests across the West African nation, with angry youths burning tires in the streets in protest.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            However, Senegal\u2019s Constitutional Council barred his attempts to delay the election, ruling that it must be held before April 2, when Sall\u2019s second and final term expires.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Earlier on Wednesday, Sall dissolved the government and announced that sitting Prime Minister Amadou Ba would be replaced with Interior Minister Sidiki Kaba.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In a communique from the council of ministers, Ba \u201creaffirmed his support\u201d for Sall\u2019s decisions and \u201creiterated his thanks and gratitude\u201d for the president.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Nineteen candidates are registered to run in the election, according to the Constitutional Council.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country\u2019s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cThe President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,\u201d the statement read. The election was initially slated for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16584","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\/16584","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=16584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}