(17 Nov 2024)
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Dakar, Senegal – 17 November 2024
1. Various of voters waiting for polling station to open
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Mady Ba, voter:
“There are new people in power. As you know, this administration didn’t have the majority in the national assembly. These elections were organized so that they can have a majority, and be able to govern.”
3. Close of voters entering polling station
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Karine Bouaye, voter:
“The last assembly, we were not proud of the 14th legislature. Maybe this one will be better, with people there who will be better for the country.”
5. Various of voters waiting in line to enter polling station
6. Wide of a woman casting her vote
7. Close of voter putting ink on finger to show that he has voted
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Tieumbe Seck, voter:
“Really, I hope it changes, so they vote in the best policies. It’s the assembly that controls governmental action. So we hope they will keep an eye on what the government is doing and control governmental action.”
9. Wide of man leaving polling station
10. Close of polling station poster
11. Wide of people waiting in line to vote
12. Close of Senegalese flag flying over polling station
STORYLINE:
Voters in Senegal cast their ballots on Sunday in a parliamentary election that is set to determine whether the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms.
More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country are choosing 165 lawmakers in the national assembly, where the party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye currently does not hold a majority.
Faye, who was elected in March on an anti-establishment platform, says that has blocked him from executing the reforms he pledged during his campaign, including fighting corruption, reviewing fishing permits for foreign companies and securing a bigger share from the country’s natural resources for the population.
At the Berthe Maubert polling station in Dakar, voters formed long lines before polls opened.
Voter Mady Ba said that the election will show if Senegalese citizens agree with the president’s move to seek to entrench the ruling party’s power.
“These elections were organized so that they can have a majority, and be able to govern,” he said.
As voters waited for the polling station to open, Karine Bouaye expressed a clear desire for change in Senegal’s parliament.
“We were not proud of the 14th legislature. Maybe this one will be better, with people there who will be better for the country,” she said.
In September, Faye dissolved the opposition-led parliament, paving the way for a snap legislative election.
His party is facing the Takku Wallu opposition platform led by former President Macky Sall, alongside 39 other registered parties and coalitions.
Polls will close at 6 p.m (1800 GMT).
The first provisional results are expected to be known by Monday morning, but the final count will only be published later in the week.
Faye’s political party, PASTEF, needs at least 83 seats in order to gain a majority in the assembly.
Analysts say it has a high chance of securing that, given its popularity and Faye’s margin of victory in the March presidential election.
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