On February 3, Macky Sall took Senegal by surprise.
In an impromptu address to the nation, he announced the cancellation of the decree summoning voters on the 24th of the same month for the presidential election.
In other words, the president canceled a vote sine die, raising a huge eyebrow.
Since then, calm has returned, when the president spoke again to finally set the vote for March 24.
In this month of delay, nothing has changed, neither the opposition nor the majority candidates, nor the conditions of the election.
The president, who called for the reopening of applications, or even the complete resumption of the selection process, obtained nothing.
Why did the president then take the risk of ruining his reputation, of tarnishing his moral heritage for four weeks?
Experts are careful not to offer an explanation for what remains a perfectly sterile manipulation.
By way of explanation, the Head of State and his entourage then put forward a…
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