Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been in preventive detention since April 2023. The fact that he has not yet been tried and sentenced is apparently the reason why his candidacy was accepted by the Constitutional Council.
Several dozen opponents have been released in recent days, a gesture of appeasement from the regime of President Macky Sall. Senegal entered into crisis at the beginning of February, following the postponement of the presidential election, initially scheduled for February 25, to December 15.