They may be more inspired by the rhetoric of Sonko who as leader of the Pastef campaign has been touring the country in a convoy whereas the Morocco-based Sall and Karim Wade still in Doha content themselves with messages from abroad...
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Macky Sall whose chosen successor Amadou Ba was decisively beaten by Faye in March had broadened his Takku Wallu coalition to bring in the Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS) led by former President Abdoulaye Wade and his son Karim Wade and Idrissa Seck's Rewmi party...
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Vol 65 No 20 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Sometimes Bourgi's mask of honour and probity slips as when he remarks on his advice to the elderly President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and his son Karim Wade to keep the old man out of the 2012 election and give up the attempt to finesse for himself a third term of office (AC Vol 52 No 13 One day son)...
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Sall's acquiescence to the ruling despite having corralled the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition and Karim Wade's Parti démocratique Sénégalais (PDS) behind his plan in parliament came as opposition parties and civic activists were mobilising for an extended protest campaign and criticism from the United States and the European Union was mounting...
After Sall the biggest losers from this U-turn are Karim Wade son of the former President Abdoulaye Wade and the PDS...
The latest twist has led some to speculate that it may have been an unwritten deal between President Sall and opponent Karim Wade that sparked the turmoil...
That chimed with complaints from Karim Wade's camp after the Court had blocked his nomination citing his failure to surrender his French nationality before the registration deadline...
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' The decision by the constitutional court to rule as ineligible most of the more than 80 candidates who sought to stand in the first ballot including opposition Pastef les Patriotes leader Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade was presented as the rationale behind Sall's decision (AC Vol 65 No 3 A crowded field)...
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Karim Wade the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade was also declared ineligible for the ballot...
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Also disqualified is Karim Wade son of former president Abdoulaye Wade because of his dual French nationality – which he only surrendered last October too late for Senegal's electoral deadline...
Senegalese also learned from a speech on social media that the other beneficiary of the national dialogue amnesty deal – Karim Wade son of former president Abdoulaye Wade – is to join the election campaign...
With uncertainty over Ousmane Sonko's future the 2024 polls are shaping up to be a four-way battle between Seck Khalifa Sall Karim Wade and Prime Minister Amadou Ba who last week was anointed by outgoing President Sall as candidate for the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) party...