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Report on the Senegalese Presidential Elections of

24th February 2019
by Alpha Waly Diallo 
Alpha is an Expert in International Relations and General Manager of African Global
Business in Senegal

Summary: An analysis of the political state-of-play in Senegal following the recent Presidential
elections

Background

After three weeks of exacting, exciting and sometimes violent electoral campaigns, with death of
men, the ve candidates selected by the constitutional court:

1. The outgoing President Mr MAKY SALL of the coalition of the presidential majority composed of
the Coalition Benno BOKK YAKKAAR (BBY) who brought him to power, with the Afp of the national
assembly president Mr Mustapha NIASSE (3rd in 2012) and the Socialist Party of Mr Ousmane tanor
Dieng Current president of the High Council of Territorial municipalities (HCTT) (4th EN 2012); This
group is complemented by the defectors of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) of former
PRESIDENT ABDOULAYE WADE and former leaders of the Senegalese civil society. The outgoing
president, Macky SALL, also got enough sponsors.
 
2. The candidate of the IDI2019 COALITION Mr Idrissa SECK Former prime Minister of PRESIDENT
ABDOULAYE WADE arrives 5th in the elections of 2012. The COALITION of Idrissa SECK, after
veri cation by the Constitutional Council, totalled 58,000 sponsors on the 68,820 application with a
rejection of 10,000 cases not admissible.
 
3. The candidate of the religious obedience Party of Unity and of the (pure) gathering of the religious
leader of the religious CONFRERIE of the TIDJANES Mr MOUSTAPHA SY, Prof. ISSA SALL, handsome
brother of the leader. The candidate of the Unity and Assembly Party (PUR), ISSA SALL, has validated
his sponsorship. After counting, 63 262 sponsorships were valid and 3 150 were rejected.
 
4. The candidate of the COALITION Sonko President 2019 of the young LEADER of the party of
Patriots of SENEGAL Mr OUSMANE Sonko. Former senior o cial of the tax ADMINISTRATION, written
o by President SALL for divulging tax evasions of certain high state authorities on the gas and the
Senegalese oil. At 45 years old, he embodies the dream of generational TRANSITION of most of
Senegalese youth. Candidate OUSMANE Sonko was successful in his TEST. 61 791 sponsorships were
valid on the 68 820 depositions to the Constitutional Council.
 
5. The candidate of the COALITION MADICKE2019 Me Madicke NIANG Former lawyer and Minister for
Foreign A airs of PRESIDENT ABDOULAYE WADE. He defected, swearing loyalty to his MENTOR,
following the almost impossibility of PARTICIPATION in these elections of February 2019 of the
chosen candidate of the party of former PRESIDENT WADE. Suspected of being a Trojan horse of
PRESIDENT SALL, he crossed with "facilitates" the obstacle of sponsorship in the space of 3 months,
to everyone's surprise. Madicke NIANG indicates that the Constitutional Council has valid 65000 of
its sponsorships and rejects 5000 others.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS SENEGAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS FEBRUARY 2019 (cena)

 
REGISTEREDVOTERS: 6 683 043
VOTINGS: 4 426 344
NULL VOTES: 42 465
RIGHT VOTES: 4 383 879

NAME VOTES OBTAINED PERCENTAGE ENDORSEMENT

MACKY SALL 2,544,605 58.27 OK

IDRISSA SECK 898,674 20.50 ABSENT

OUSMANE SONKO 687,065 15.67 WITH WRITTEN RESERVES

ISSA SALL 178,533 4.07 WITH WRITTEN RESERVES

MADICKE NIANG 65,002 0.48 WITH WRITTEN RESERVES

The Stakes

For the candidate/President MR Macky SALL (58 years old) The goal was to win in the rst round
with at least one score equal to his record of 2012 (65% in the 2nd round against ABDOULAYE WADE)
after seven years of power sanctioned by a fairly good economic balance but tarnished By serious
infringements of the Democratic gains of 2012.

For candidate Idrissa SECK (60 years old), former prime minister of Wade, who is on his third
attempt, the objective was to take advantage of the ‘’dirty” political climate in the Senegal
Democratic Party of Wade and the support of former allies during the legislatives elections of 2017
to put outgoing President Macky SALL in unfavourable toss and oblige him to have a second round;
For the candidate of the coalition Sonko President 2019, MR OUSMANE SONKO (45 Years), the
Senegalese MALEMA, it was to position himself as a young LEADER, anti-system and supportive of a
PRAGAMATIQUE rupture in the management of public a airs. Pan-Africanist and having as models
SANKARA, CHEIKH ANTA DIOP, MAMADOU DIA and MANDELA He is described as nationalist by many;
For the candidate of the coalition of the PUR, the objective was to increase its beautiful
performance of the 2017 legislative  and to demonstrate that the party could go beyond its natural
base that is the religious TIDJANIYA BROTHERHOOD, even if its leader defend and is right in a laic
country

For the SURPRISE candidate and former Minister of Foreign A airs of WADE and lawyer of his son
KARIM Wade against the Government of Senegal, MR Madicke NIANG The objective was to make a
good margin by drawing on the electorate of the former President Wade whose party did not
present another candidate other than KARIM Wade.

Trends and Results

In anticipation of the o cial proclamation of the results of the National Autonomous Electoral
Commission (CENA),the majority presidential, through Prime Minister MR BOUN ABDALLAH DIONNE,
said, that after updates and compilations of Minutes from his agents in the di erent polling stations,
outgoing President MR Macky SALL should win the ballot in the rst round and with at least 57% of
the votes expressed; Of their odds the four other candidates gathered their FORCES to proclaim that
the TOTAL votes of the entire OPPOSITION joined together guaranteed a second inevitable round
between the candidate of the COALITION IDY2019 MR Idrissa SECK who came behind the president
Outgoing Macky SALL with a solid percentage of61%. According to their statistics, these results are
(look at the table of DAKAR MIDI)
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The attached table is derived from the SYTHESES and CONCLUSIONS of the collective of civil
society organizations (COSE)) in PARTENATIAT with the 3D NGO and USAID that I was able to obtain
on Tuesday 26 February 2019.

The CENA will communicate its o cial results on Friday 1March 2019 at 00h 00
 
Remarks and Conclusions

The presidential ballot has brought into evidence a dangerous heavy trend. This is the cracking, at
the fair moment, of the national fabric. Once known for their common desire for common life, the
Senegalese people have, on the occasion of this election quite ostensibly expressed, ethno-
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denominational preferences. Thus the northern expression HALPULAR and the center of SERERE
expression, have massively voted for their common child Macky SALL. As for the south of Senegal,
namely the REGION of ZIGUINCHOR, it chose to plebiscite the child of the country Ousmane
SONKO ; and to complete the analysis, the Murid religious community has for its part displayed its
PREFERENCE for one of his disciples Idrissa SECK. It is true that candidate Madicke NIANG is also a
disciple of the murid community, but he had the big inconvenience of being disavowed by an icon
of the community, namely ABDOULAYE WADE. This unedited situation is the consequence of the
electoral Sponsorship Act. The e ect of this law has been to frustrate candidates on the one hand,
pushing them to rally in large numbers, candidate Idrissa SECK and on the other hand this law has
restricted considerably the pluralism of political choices of voters.

It is probably, this loss of the political sense of their vote that has made a signi cant fraction of the
electorate has poured into the emotional vote. In any case, the time has come to promote political
inclusion and bring the Senegalese people together in the coming weeks.

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