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In Senegal, the pan-Africanist duo Sonko and Faye see themselves coming to power

2024-03-23T06:14:25.495Z

Highlights: In Senegal, the pan-Africanist duo Sonko and Faye see themselves coming to power. The two opponents hope for a raid in the first round of the presidential election. Ousmane Sonko, who was unable to run for president due to a legal conviction, publicly dubbed his runner-up. It is therefore his right arm who now wears the colors of Pastef, the party dissolved by the government last summer, in this Sunday's election. On campaign posters, the two faces appear side by side.


STORY – The two opponents hope for a raid in the first round of the presidential election.


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“We don’t want revenge, but we want justice.”

It was a highly anticipated first in Senegal and a turnaround that was still unimaginable a few weeks ago that the appearance of Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the two imprisoned opponents, released thanks to a law of general amnesty.

Ousmane Sonko, who was unable to run for president due to a legal conviction, publicly dubbed his runner-up during a press conference that day, Friday March 15:

“I entrust Senegal to Diomaye,”

he chanted.

It is therefore his right arm who now wears the colors of Pastef, the party dissolved by the government last summer, in this Sunday's election.

Their return to the game has relaunched the campaign, a little over a week before the first round of the presidential election... with an unprecedented and double-sided candidacy: on campaign posters, the two faces appear side by side. coast, with the message

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Source: lefigaro

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