Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko advocates a single candidacy for the upcoming elections in Senegal

Aug. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the opposition alliance Yewwi Askan Wi (Let’s Liberate the People), Ousmane Sonko, has advocated a single candidacy for the next elections in 2024, for which he plans to stand as a candidate, as announced last week.

“If you ask me my personal conviction, personally I would have liked that in the framework of the next presidential elections we would find ourselves around a single candidate. It is a personal wish,” he said, according to the Senegal7 network.

In the middle of the week, the Senegalese opponent officially announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections. “If it pleases God and if my party wants it, because we have investiture rules within the party, I am a candidate for the presidential elections,” he said. , according to a statement collected by ‘Le Point Afrique’.

The deputies of Benno Bokk Yakaar (United for Hope or BBY), were received on Saturday by the country’s president, Macky Sall after becoming the majority force in Parliament with 83 seats thanks to the support of the former mayor of Dakar and former president of the Senegalese Senate Diop paper.

Diop, from the Bokk Gis coalition, Gis was one of the three deputies not attached to either of the two main coalitions, so his two remaining colleagues – Thierno Alassane Sall, from the Alternative for a Rupture Parliament (APR) and Papa Djibril Fall of The Servers could change the outcome again if they decide to endorse Sonko or former President Abdoulaye Wade’s Wallu Senegal (Save Senegal) party.

The results of the last elections left the government coalition with 82 seats, while Yewwi Askan Wi (Let’s Liberate the People), took 52. In addition, the Wallu Senegal party of former President Wade and an ally of Yewwi Askan Wi, took control of 24 seats.

Senegal went to the polls to elect the members of a National Assembly whose election is according to a system that combines proportional representation with national lists for 53 legislators and majority voting in the departments of the country for another 97.