President Macky Sall announces the indefinite postponement of the presidential election. This is the first time since 1963 that a presidential election by direct universal suffrage has been postponed in Senegal.
Opponents of the outgoing president suspect a plan to postpone the presidential vote because those in power fear losing it. One of the 20 candidates validated by the Council, Rose Wardini, was placed in custody on Friday evening by the Criminal Investigation Division (Dic, judicial police) for “forgery and use of forgery and fraud in the judgment”