The National Assembly of Senegal adopted, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the law aimed at postponing the presidential election, initially scheduled from February 25 to December 15, 2024.
According to the Senegalese Press Agency, the debate which began Monday morning continued until the middle of the night in an electric atmosphere, with parliamentarians even coming to blows in the afternoon.
Tension rose a notch in Senegal, considered an island of stability in West Africa, after the announcement on Saturday by President Macky Sall to postpone the presidential election scheduled for February 25, a few hours before the opening of countryside.
The text was, ultimately, adopted almost unanimously by the deputies, by 105 votes for and one vote against, thus confirming the postponement of the presidential election to December 15.
