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2019 Senegalese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 24 February 2019. Incumbent president Macky Sall of the Alliance for the Republic was re-elected for a second term with 58% of the vote in the first round. Electoral system The President of Senegal is elected using the two-round system; a candidate must receive over 50% of the vote to be elected in the first round. If no candidate had crossed the threshold, a second round would have been held between the top two candidates. Prior to the elections, the electoral law was amended to introduce requirements for candidates to secure signatures from at least 0.8% of the registered electorate, and for at least 2,000 signatures from seven of the 14 regions. Voters were only allowed to give a signature to one candidate. Candidates Although 87 candidates registered intent to collect signatures, only around 20 applied to the Constitutional Council to participate in the election, with the requirement for signatures and the introduction of a 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macky Sall
Macky Sall (, wo, Maki Sàll, fuc, 𞤃𞤢𞤳𞤭 𞤅𞤢𞤤, italic=no, Maki Sal; born 11 December 1961) is a Senegalese politician who has been President of Senegal since April 2012. He was re-elected President in the first round voting in February 2019. Under President Abdoulaye Wade, Sall was Prime Minister of Senegal from July 2004 to June 2007 and President of the National Assembly from June 2007 to November 2008. He was the Mayor of Fatick from 2002 to 2008 and held that post again from 2009 to 2012. Sall was a long-time member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS). After coming into conflict with Wade, he was removed from his post as President of the National Assembly in November 2008; he consequently founded his own party named the Alliance for the Republic (APR) and joined the opposition. Placing second in the first round of the 2012 presidential election, he won the backing of other opposition candidates and prevailed over Wade in the second round of vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Wade
Karim Meïssa Wade (born 1 September 1968 ) is a Senegalese politician who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of State for International Cooperation, Regional Development, Air Transport, and Infrastructure from May 2009 to April 2012. He is the son of Abdoulaye Wade, who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. Before joining the government, Karim Wade was President of the National Agency for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (''Agence Nationale de l'Organisation de la Conférence Islamique'', ANOCI) and served as an advisor to his father. He was widely seen as a possible successor to his father as president, and his father was widely believed to be grooming him for the position. Early life Wade, the son of Abdoulaye Wade and his French wife Viviane Wade, was born in Paris on 1 September 1968. He attended primary school at the French-Senegalese School of Dakar (part of the les Maristes Cours Sainte Marie de Hann) and completed his secondary education at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Senegal
Events in the year 2019 in Senegal. Incumbents * President: Macky Sall * Prime Minister: Mahammed Dionne Events *February 24 – President Macky Sall wins a second term with 58% of the vote in the 2019 Senegalese presidential election. *July 29 — Journalist Adama Gaye (''Kapital Afrik,'' ''Jeune Afrique,'' France 24, TV5Monde, and Al Jazeera) is arrested and charged with acting to compromise public security and offending the president. *September 27 — The opening of Massalikoul Djinane Mosque. *September 29 — President Macky Sall pardons his rival, the former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was jailed in 2018 for corruption. *November 19 – West Africa's largest mosque opens in Touba at a cost of US $50 million. *December 11 – Music legend Baaba Maal, who was born in Podor promises to fight to stop the desertification in the Sahel by planting trees. *December 24 – Midnight mass is celebrated as the first event leading to the reopening of the Cathedral of Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Elections In Africa
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Party For Unity And Rally
The Party for Unity and Rally (french: Parti de l'Unité et du Rassemblement; PUR) is an Islamist political party in Senegal. The party was founded in 1998 and is led by Cheikh Mouhamadou Moustapha Sy. The party won three seats at the 2017 parliamentary election. In September 2021 it joined Ousmane Sonko's Liberate the People alliance. During the following year the coalition contested first the 2022 local elections, winning in several major cities including Dakar, and later the 2022 national election, gaining 56 seats and becoming the second biggest coalition in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep .... Its colours are green and white; its symbol is two doves facing each other. Electoral results Presidential elections National Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriots Of Senegal For Work, Ethics And Fraternity
The African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (french: Patriotes africains du Sénégal pour le travail, l'éthique et la fraternité; PASTEF), or just Patriots of Senegal, is a Senegalese political party founded in 2014 by Ousmane Sonko. History In a desire for political renewal, several young civil servants from the Senegalese public administration and from other backgrounds, united in a committee to create PASTEF in January 2014. The party is defined above all as being a dynamic. Composed mainly of beginners in politics, nevertheless the personalities who make up the committee are qualified in trade union acts and public functions. Like taxation through its president. In 2017, PASTEF joined the People's Alternative coalition for the legislative elections of that same year. This coalition is made up of several parties including: PASTEF, RND, MRDS, and others. During the final results, with 1.13% of the votes Ousmane Sonko - at the head of this coalition is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rewmi
Rewmi ( in Wolof""Former Senegalese Premier returns to ruling party, but insists on presidency" African Press Agency, February 1, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007. ) is a political party in . It is led by , after he founded it in 2006. History The party boycotted the June 2007 parliamentary election.Diadie Ba[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahammed Dionne
Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (born 22 September 1959) is a Senegalese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2014 to 2019. He was the third prime minister appointed by President Macky Sall. Dionne served at the Central Bank of West African States, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI), and as the advisor of the president, before his appointment as prime minister. He is a computer engineer by training. Early life Dionne was born on 22 September 1959, in Gossas. When his mother gave birth to him, she took refuge in a locality where her grandmother lived. His father worked as a police commissioner. Political career Dionne worked as an engineer specializing in applied economics, and worked in a West African bank and as head of the Economic Office at the Senegalese Embassy in France. He was Director of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Macky Sall from 2005 to 2007, and when Sall moved to the post of President of the National Assembly in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issa Sall
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Idrissa Seck
Idrissa Seck (born August 9, 1959) is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to July 2004. He was a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and was considered a protégé of President Abdoulaye Wade, but he subsequently went into opposition and was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election, taking second place with about 15% of the vote. Biography He was born in Thiès and studied in Paris as well as at Princeton University. He joined the PDS when he was 15 years old and was Wade's campaign director in the February 1988 presidential election. Seck served as Minister of Trade, Crafts, and Industrialization as an opposition member of Abdou Diouf's government. He became deputy leader of the PDS in 1998, replacing Ousmane Ngom. After Wade took office in April 2000, he appointed Seck as Minister of State and Director of the Cabinet. The PDS was restructured after this election; Seck's position of Executive Secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West African CFA Franc
The West African CFA franc (French: ''franc CFA'' or simply ''franc'', ISO 4217 code: XOF; abbreviation: F.CFA) is the currency used by eight independent states in West Africa which make up the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA; '): Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ..., Niger, Senegal and Togo. These eight countries had a combined population of 105.7 million people in 2014, and a combined GDP of US$128.6 billion (as of 2018). The acronym CFA stands for ' ("African Financial Community"). The currency is issued by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO; '), located in Dakar, Senegal, for the members of the UEMOA. The franc is nominally subdivided into 100 ''centimes'' but no coins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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