The President of the Republic, who fulfilled his civic duty on Sunday at the Thierno Mamadou Sall Center, hoped that the Senegalese ‘would be able to go vote and return peacefully’ home, stressing that Senegal had ‘ a proven electoral system’.
”I hope that all our compatriots can go and vote and return home peacefully knowing that we have a proven electoral system,” he declared as he left office 3 of the Thierno Mamadou Sall center, in the commune of Fatick.
‘All the candidates are represented in the polling stations, as are representatives of the autonomous national electoral commission (CENA),’ he added.
He noted that ‘it is at the end of the vote, this evening that the results will be published in front of each polling station and just after that the departmental vote counting commissions will take action (…)’. And the Constitutional Council will give the final results, he continued.
Macky Sall, who is not a candidate for his own succession, recalled that it is neither up to a candidate nor a camp to
proclaim the results.
”Tonight the polling stations will speak and reflect the choice of the Senegalese. We hope that this choice will be the best for the Senegalese,” he said, accompanied by his wife the First Lady, Marième Faye Sall.
Macky Sall, in power for 12 years, is not running for a new term after serving two at the head of the country.
He said he was ‘moved’ to sacrifice his duty as a citizen on this presidential election day.
He thanked the people of Senegal for their support during the 12 years he spent at the head of the country.
The Senegalese are going to the polls this Sunday to elect a new President of the Republic, the final stage of an electoral process whose implementation with forceps has tested the institutional foundations of the country like never before.
In total, 7,371,890 voters are called to the polls to elect the successor of Macky Sall, in power for 12 years and who is not running for a new mandate after having served two at the head of the country.
Nineteen candidates in
cluding one woman are in the running for the vote.
Source: Burkina Information Agency