Senegal has cleared some opposition candidates who are running for the country's presidency The National Assembly of Senegal has approv...
Senegal has cleared some opposition candidates who are running for the country's presidency
The National Assembly of Senegal has approved the bill that restores the right to allow two deputy leaders of the opposition to run in the presidential election next year.
On Saturday evening, 124 votes were cast, that is, the vote acquitted everyone who was found guilty but was pardoned or pardoned in order to run for office.
This paved the way for Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, who were not eligible to be elected president of Senegal in February 2024.
Sall, the former mayor of Dakar, and Wade, the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade, are both considered to be the front runners.
They were barred from running in the last presidential election in 2019 due to various financial crimes.
The person who won this vote, Macky Sall, has now reached the end of his second term.
Last month, he ended the months-long controversy by announcing that he would not seek a third term, which legal experts said would be against the country's constitution.
Analysts believe that the decision of the parliament will help to ease the political crisis that has surrounded the country of Senegal in recent months.