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The original election date was chosen on 1 December 2016 after a meeting between the President of Senegal Macky Sall and the Opposition in the National Assembly. [2]The coalition of parties supporting President Sall, Benno Bokk Yaakaar, sought to retain the parliamentary majority it obtained in the 2012 parliamentary election.
Decades: 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. See also: Other events of 2017. Timeline of Senegalese history. This article is a list of events in the year 2017 in Senegal.
Politics of Senegal. Senegal elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a seven-year term by the people (between 2001 and 2008, it was a five-year term; this was changed back to the pre-2001 seven-year term in 2008, [1] though incumbent president Macky Sall has stated he ...
October. 10 October: Liberia, President (1st round) and House of Representatives [31] 15 October: Austria, National Council [32] Kyrgyzstan, President [33] 20–21 October: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies. 22 October: Argentina, Chamber of Deputies and Senate.
Senegal is one of the few African states that has never experienced a coup d'état or exceptionally harsh authoritarianism. Léopold Senghor, the first president after independence, resigned in 1981, handing over the office of president to his Prime Minister, Abdou Diouf. The present president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was elected in democratic ...
The National Observatory of Elections was created on 8 September 1997 by president Abdou Diouf, under Law 95-15, during the Third wave of democratization.In 2005, president Abdoulaye Wade, replaced the National Observatory of Elections by the National Autonomous Electoral Commission (CENA), defined as a legally and financially independent agency under Law 2005-07 of 11 May 2005.
Between now and November 2017, there will be special elections for 19 more state legislature seats, four U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat. Some Democratic candidates in U.S. House races are generating excitement, including the Bernie Sanders-backing banjo player Rob Quist in Montana and 30-year-old documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff in ...
In 2017, PASTEF joined the People's Alternative coalition for the legislative elections of that same year. [9] 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 elected deputy of the department of Dakar.