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Senegal: the election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye represents “immense hope” for his voters, according to the director of Afrique Magazine
After the victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the presidential election of Senegal, Zyad Liman, director of Afrique magazine, returns for 19/20 info on his lightning victory and his future challenges.
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After the victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the presidential election of Senegal, Zyad Liman, director of Afrique magazine, returns for 19/20 info on his lightning victory and his future challenges.
Only ten days ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was in prison. On the evening of Tuesday March 26, he was elected Senegalese head of state. He is the “number 2 of Pastef, party founded by its charismatic leader, Ousmane Sonko, who came in third position in the 2019 elections and established himself as number 1 opponent in the country with a radical discourse of rupture, change etc.”details Zyad Liman, director of Afrique Magazine.
Youth mobilized
The youth vote was overwhelming. “There is also something that is anti-elite. In Senegal and in several countries in the area, there is the feeling that all these talks about growth, emergence, the new Africa, are not not translated into concrete results on the ground and would be captured by a certain internationalized, bourgeois, French-speaking, Parisian elite”explains Zyad Liman, stressing that the elections were “very quiet”. “Now, it’s a huge hope for the people who voted for Diomaye Faye. There will be a moment of enthusiasm and very quickly we will return to Senegalese reality”he indicates.
