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Rewmi
Rewmi ( in Wolof"Former Senegalese Premier returns to ruling party, but insists on presidency" African Press Agency, February 1, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007. ) is a political party in . It is led by , after he founded it in 2006. History The party boycotted the June 2007 parliamentary election.Diadie Ba[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idrissa Seck
Idrissa Seck (born 9 August 1959) is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to July 2004. He was a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and was considered a protégé of President Abdoulaye Wade, but he subsequently went into opposition and was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election, coming second place with about 15% of the vote. Biography He was born in Thiès and studied in Paris as well as at Princeton University. He joined the PDS when he was 15 years old and was Wade's campaign director in the 1988 Senegalese presidential election. Seck served as Minister of Trade, Crafts, and Industrialization as an opposition member of Abdou Diouf's government. He became deputy leader of the PDS in 1998, replacing Ousmane Ngom. After Wade took office in April 2000, he appointed Seck as Minister of State and Director of the Cabinet. The PDS was restructured after this election; Seck's position of Executive Secreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Senegalese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 26 February 2012, amidst controversy over the constitutional validity of a third term for incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade. In the Runoff election, runoff on 25 March, Macky Sall defeated the incumbent president. The 2015 documentary film ''Incorruptible'' chronicles both campaigns as well as the youth movement Y'en a Marre, which led protests against Wade's administration. Background In July 2008, the National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment increasing the length of the presidential term to seven years, as it was prior to the 2001 Senegalese constitutional referendum, adoption of the 2001 constitution. This extension didn't apply to Abdoulaye Wade's 2007–2012 term, but Minister of Justice Madické Niang stressed on this occasion that Wade could potentially run for re-election in 2012 if he was still healthy. The 26 February 2012 date for the election was decreed by President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade on 23 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takku Wallu Sénégal
Takku Wallu Sénégal (TWS; ; ) is a Senegalese liberal political coalition led by former President Macky Sall. The coalition's main components are the two former ruling parties, Alliance for the Republic and the Senegalese Democratic Party, as well as Rewmi, Bokk Gis Gis, Union of Centrists of Senegal and other parties. History The Takku Wallu Sénégal Grand Coalition was founded on 25 September 2024 on the eve of the snap parliamentary election. About 125 political parties and movements took part in the creation of the coalition. Takku Wallu Sénégal became part of a broad anti-PASTEF "inter-coalition", along with two other colaitions: Sàmm Sa Kàddu led by Barthélémy Dias and Jàmm ak Njariñ led by Amadou Ba. The coalitions joined forces in almost all of Senegal's departments, forming joint lists. On 30 September 2024, it was announced that former Senegalese President Macky Sall would become the leader of the national list of the Takku Wallu Sénégal coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Senegalese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 24 February 2019. Incumbent president Macky Sall of the Alliance for the Republic was re-elected for a second term with 58% of the vote in the first round. Electoral system The President of Senegal is elected using the two-round system; a candidate must receive over 50% of the vote to be elected in the first round. If no candidate had crossed the threshold, a second round would have been held between the top two candidates. Prior to the elections, the electoral law was amended to introduce requirements for candidates to secure signatures from at least 0.8% of the registered electorate, and for at least 2,000 signatures from seven of the 14 regions. Voters were only allowed to give a signature to one candidate. Candidates Although 87 candidates registered intent to collect signatures, only around 20 applied to the Constitutional Council to participate in the election, with the requirement for signatures and the introduction of a 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Senegalese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 3 June 2007 to elect the 150 members of the National Assembly. They had originally been planned to be held together with the presidential election on 25 February 2007, but were postponed. Fourteen parties or coalitions participated in the elections, but they were marked by a major opposition boycott."Parties to boycott Senegal's legislative poll" AFP (''IOL''), May 14, 2007. The ruling Sopi Coalition won 131 seats, including all 90 of the seats elected by majority voting. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Senegalese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 25 February 2007. Incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected in the first round with almost 56% of the vote.Diadie Ba"Senegal's Wade re-elected, warns opposition", Reuters (''Mail & Guardian Online''), 2 March 2007."Le texte intégral de la décision du Conseil constitutionnel" Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Seneweb.com), 11 March 2007 . Background Wade announced the date for the election on 13 April 2006. The election campaign officially began on 4 February 2007. Soldiers voted early on 17 February and 18 February; this was the first time in the country's history that soldiers were allowed to vote. Had a run-off been necessary, it would have been held on 18 March 2007. A |
2024 Senegalese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 17 November 2024 following the early dissolution of the National Assembly (Senegal), National Assembly by president Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The decision to dissolve the Assembly came during a politically tense period, with Faye seeking a stronger mandate for his administration’s policies amid growing economic challenges and increasing public demands for reform. The election resulted in a decisive victory for Faye's party PASTEF, which won an absolute majority in the National Assembly with 130 of the 165 seats. The main opposition coalition, Takku Wallu Sénégal, managed to secure 16 seats, while Jàmm ak Njariñ took 7 seats. Background On 12 September 2024, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the National Assembly (Senegal), National Assembly and ordered snap elections for the chamber on 17 November. Faye, who took office on 2 April, and his prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, had previously been in conflict with the oppositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Senegalese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 24 March 2024. Incumbent president Macky Sall was ineligible to pursue a third term due to term limits in the Constitution of Senegal. The elections were originally scheduled for 25 February, but were postponed indefinitely by a decree of Sall on 3 February, and then delayed by the National Assembly to 15 December. However, on 15 February the Senegalese Constitutional Council overturned the postponement and ordered elections to proceed as soon as possible, with the government subsequently setting a new election date for 24 March after a national dialogue at the end of February was ruled unconstitutional. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, running in place of Ousmane Sonko, was elected president with 54% of the vote, while Amadou Ba, the candidate of the ruling United in Hope (BBY) coalition, peacefully conceded defeat. Faye's victory was later confirmed by Senegal's Supreme Court. He was inaugurated as president on 2 April. Background Sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macky Sall
Macky Sall (, , ; born 11 December 1961) is a Senegalese politician who served as the fourth president of Senegal from 2012 to 2024. He previously served as the eighth Prime Minister of Senegal, prime minister from 2004 to 2007, under President Abdoulaye Wade and List of presidents of the National Assembly of Senegal, president of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2008. Sall served as the Mayor of Fatick from 2002 to 2008 and held that post again from 2009 to 2012. He was a long-time member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS). After coming into conflict with Wade, he was removed from his post as President of the National Assembly in November 2008; he consequently founded his own party named the Alliance for the Republic (Senegal), Alliance for the Republic (APR) and joined the opposition. Placing second in the first round of the 2012 Senegalese presidential election, 2012 presidential election, he won the backing of other opposition candidates and prevailed over Wade in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manko Taxawu Sénégal
The Manko Taxawu Sénégal (Wolof: "Coalition for the Revival of Senegal") is a group of several political parties organised to contest the 2017 Senegalese legislative elections. The coalition was originally intended to form a unified opposition list to challenge President Macky Sall's Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition, but negotiations among key opposition figures broke down over disputes on whether former President Abdoulaye Wade or imprisoned former Mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, would head the list. Wade instead led his own coalition, Mako Wattu Senegal, into the election. The coalition was organised and principally led by Khalifa Sall, who broke away from the Socialist Party, and former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck with his party Rewmi. The coalition came third in the 2017 parliamentary election, winning 7 seats. In 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak Idrissa Seck and his party left the coalition to join back Macky Sall's presidential majority in the hope to work on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa Liberal Network
The Africa Liberal Network (ALN; ) is an organization composed of 42 political parties from 24 countries in Africa. It is an associated organisation of Liberal International, the political family to which liberal democratic parties belong. The ALN serves to promote liberal objectives and principles throughout the continent. Parties involved in the ALN agree to a policy stating that they: exist to ensure the freedom and dignity of all people through; establishing political and civil rights, ensuring basic freedoms, the rule of law, democratic government based on free and fair elections with peaceful transition, ensuring religious, gender, and minority rights, fighting corruption, and establishing free market economies. Development The network developed from what was originally the Organisation of African Liberal Parties and was established during an initial meeting of parties in Mombasa, Kenya, in July 2001. It was formally launched at a subsequent meeting in Johannesburg, Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal International
Liberal International (LI) is a worldwide organization of liberalism, liberal political parties. The political international was founded in Oxford in 1947 and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal and progressive democratic parties aiming to strengthen liberalism and democratic values around the world. Its headquarters are within the National Liberal Club. The Oxford Manifesto describes the basic political principles of the Liberal International, which is currently made up of 111 parties and organizations. Aims The Liberal International Constitution (2005) gives its purposes as: The principles that unite member parties from Africa, America, Asia and Europe are respect for human rights, free and fair elections and Multi-party system, multi-party democracy, social justice, Toleration, tolerance, market economy, free trade, environmental sustainability and a strong sense of international solidarity. The aims of Liberal International are also set out in a series of seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
