DAKAR, March 25, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Senegal’s government said Wednesday it
had again postponed local elections due to take place this month, the third
such delay for polls that were initially set for 2019.
No new date was given for the vote for municipalities and local districts.
The cabinet has approved the postponement and extended the mandates of those
currently in office, a government statement said.
President Macky Sall launched a “national dialogue” in May 2019 in a bid to
resolve an acute political crisis and the vote is not expected to occur until
it is completed, though part of the opposition has boycotted the talks and an
end date has not been set.
Dialogue participants are said to have agreed on an audit of the electoral
list and a review of voting processes before the poll can be held, with
neither having been done.
Sall’s coalition controls nearly all local councils in the West African
nation.