Senegal is still awaiting the official proclamation of the results of its legislative elections. Since midday on Tuesday November 19, each of the country’s 46 departmental commissions has displayed the results at the level of its department. Since Monday, November 18, Pastef’s victory, recognized by all political actors, is no longer in doubt.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
THE Pastef claims to have scored 80 % of seatsor 132 seats out of the 165 in the National Assembly. These latest party projections are based on the results collected by representatives of the patriots in the various voting centers across the country. Ousmane Sonko’s party has set up its own application to report these legislative results.
But this estimate is in any case quite close, within one seat, to that made by a citizen platform which aggregates the results and allocates 131 seats to the ruling party.
Only 16 of them would return to the former president’s coalition Macky Sall. In the previous Assembly, the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition had 83. The formation of former Prime Minister Amadou Ba won seven seats and the coalition of Dakar Mayor Barthélémy Dias, three.
Results available Friday at the latest
All these projections still need to be refinedbecause since this Monday, November 19 in the morning, official results have been made public, department by department. From Tuesday 20, the National Votes Census Commission will in turn aggregate all these results, in the presence of representatives of the 41 candidate lists and the National Electoral Commission (Céna).
But we will have to wait until Friday at the latest for the proclamation of all the results of the legislative elections by the first president of the court of appeal in Dakar.
If these figures can still vary slightly, they confirm a slump for Ousmane Sonko’s party and a scathing defeat for the opposition. It is a clear victory, unprecedented since 1988, with the victory of President Abdou Diouf’s socialist party. A party has never made the choice to go to legislative elections alone, without the help of a coalition, as was the case this year for Pastef.
The large pools of voters in Dakar, Thiès, Diourbel and Mbacké come under the rule of Pastef and only six departments escape Ousmane Sonko’s party.
The other lesson of this vote is the rejection by voters of an aging political class, and of major figures in Senegalese politics who have dominated electoral votes for decades.
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