The Yewwi Askan Wi coalitions, from Ousmane Sonko, and Wallu Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, denounce “irregularities” and “massive fraud”.
Le Monde With AFP
The Senegalese opposition asked, Wednesday August 3 in the evening, the suspension of the publication of the results of the legislative elections, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, to examine its complaints following “irregularities” and “fraud” . The camps of power and the opposition each claim the victory in the legislative elections on Sunday, which aim to renew the 165 seats in the National Assembly, largely controlled by the presidential coalition.
“We ask the president of the National Commission for Census of Votes [CNRV] to suspend the publication of the results scheduled for tomorrow [Thursday] to allow us to note all the irregularities that we have noted in the minutes” Declared at a press conference Déthié Fall, an official of the alliance formed by the Yewwi Askan Wi (“liberating the people”, Wolof) and Wallu Senegal (“Save Senegal”), directed respectively by the principal Opponent, Ousmane Sonko, and ex-president Abdoulaye Wade (2000-2012).
Another head of the Alliance, Aïda Mbodj, spoke of “urns jerk” and “prefabricated and without signature reports that they [power] have created themselves” in localities of the North of Senegal, including Matam, Podor, Ranerou and Kanel, of the fiefs of President Macky Sall. The stake concerns “200,000 votes”, according to her. “The Senegalese people will oppose this massive fraud,” she said during the press conference.
very tight results
“We are not going to accept a confiscation of victory. It is a company of massive fraud orchestrated by politicians with certainly the complicity of the” territorial administration, said Ousmane Sonko.
Some 7 million Senegalese were called to vote on Sunday. Participation was 47 %, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The results of the power and opposition camps are very tight, according to figures published by the local press. The CNRV, chaired by the president of the Dakar Court of Appeal, must proclaim the results of the legislative elections on Thursday afternoon, which is a nineteen month’s test of the presidential election.
The opposition claims to want to control the Parliament to impose a cohabitation on the camp of power. She also wants to push President Macky Sall to give up the project that is loaned to him to present himself to the presidential election of 2024. The Head of State, elected in 2012 for seven years and re -elected in 2019 for five years, maintains the blur on his intentions. He promised to appoint a Prime Minister – post he had suppressed in 2019 before restoring him in December 2021 – within the victorious elections training.