Senegal : a Democracy at Risk?
The entire country was hanging on Macky Sall’s every word last Thursday, as he was meant to announce the new organization of the presidential elections, which he himself had postponed only three weeks before the vote. His reason: a supposed conflict about corruption, between the presidential candidates and members of the Constitutional Council. This decision provoked a huge wave of protestations across the country as the Senegalese feared the threat of a coup, usually foreshadowed by a postponed election. This fear of the population is nevertheless softened by the decision of the Constitutional Council to declare this postponement anti constitutional. But how did this political crisis begin? Will this conflict jeopardize democracy?
