Bassirou Diomaye Faye leads Amadou Ba, the candidate for the ruling party who has refused to concede, in the presidential vote
Faye casting his vote in Mbour, Senegal. He has promised major change, including remapping Senegal’s relationship with France, its former colonial power.Faye casting his vote in Mbour, Senegal. He has promised major change, including remapping Senegal’s relationship with France, its former colonial power.
Early results show opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye ahead, prompting several rivals to publicly concede defeat. By contrast, Ba represents the administration led by the widely criticised President Macky Sall who has failed to ease economic hardship in one of coup-prone west Africa’s more stable democracies.
Hours later, as the first results began to trickle in, hundreds gathered at Faye’s campaign headquarters in the capital, Dakar, singing and dancing to the sound of drums and vuvuzelas.The scenes of jubilation were all the more remarkable because Faye, a senior official in the Pastef party led by the popular Ousmane Sonko, had only been released from jail days earlier.
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