Senegalese deputies adopted on Wednesday March 6 an amnesty law for acts linked to political violence in recent years, a text widely criticized even though it is supposed to dissipate tensions in the midst of a crisis surrounding the postponement of the presidential election.
Parliamentarians approved by 94 votes for and 49 against this text decried by its detractors as sheltering the perpetrators of serious acts, including homicides.
The amnesty for facts linked to the political unrest of the last three years is one of the elements of President Macky Sall's response to the crisis caused by the postponement of the presidential election that he decided.